[Python-Dev] [poll] New name for builtins (original) (raw)

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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