"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Jan 27 07:20:48 CET 2005

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Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> I'm -1 on adding these to __builtin__.  They are just distractors and
> have almost no use in real Python programs.  Worse, if you do use them,
> then you are likely to be programming badly -- we don't want to
> encourage that.

I agree. Because of the BDFL pronouncement, I cannot reject the patch,
but I won't accept it, either. So it seems that this patch will have
to sit in the SF tracker until either Guido processes it, or it is
withdrawn.

Regards,
Martin

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