[Python-Dev] Fast access to builtins (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry@python.org
Fri, 28 Mar 2003 07:46:37 -0500

On Friday, March 28, 2003, at 07:33 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

BTW, I expect that nonstandard builtins will be ruled out in some future version of the language, or will have to be declared differently. They are too confusing for the human reader of the code.

When you say "nonstandard builtins", do you mean nonstandard names or nonstandard values, or both? E.g. assigning gettext.ugettext() to builtin _() or setting open() to some debugging func.

I wouldn't want to completely disallow these, but I'd be happy if you had to do something special and/or (more) explicit to make them work.

-Barry