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[Python-Dev] [poll] New name for __builtins__

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Nov 28 20:13:17 CET 2007 
On Nov 28, 2007 11:02 AM, Facundo Batista <facundobatista at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/11/28, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>:
>
> > ATM I'm torn between __root__ and __python__.
>
> __root__ gives me the idea of the base of a tree, its primary node. +0

Which it is, if you consider nested namespaces as a tree (all modules
are children of __root__, all unnested function locals are children of
their module's globals, nested functions are children of their
containing function's locals).

> __python__ gives me the idea of something very deep inside python. +1

But it violates the (never before uttered, but nevertheless existing
in my consciousness since day one) rule that we shouldn't start
calling things inside Python "Python things" because then *everything*
becomes a Python thingie.

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