[stdlib-sig] proposed removal: the types module

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Apr 3, 2008, at 11:09 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>
> The idea to spread type objects across several different modules
> is just not practical.
>
> If you want to test for built-in types that are used by the  
> interpreter,
> then you want to look in *one central place* for the type object - not
> in a gazillion different modules.

Exactly right.

- -Barry

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