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On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:
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\> On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 at 15:22 Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
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\>> So I think we need a builtin.
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\> Well, the ugliness shouldn't survive forever if the community shifts over to
\> using pathlib while the built-in will. We also don't have a built-in for
\> \_\_index\_\_() so it depends on whether we expect this sort of thing to be the
\> purview of library authors or if normal people will be interacting with it
\> (it's probably both during the transition, but I don't know afterwards).

For \_\_index\_\_ the "built-in" is:

from operator import index