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

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Wed Nov 28 18:39:34 CET 2007

Steve Holden schrieb:

What name do you prefer? I'm +1 with Raymond on root but I'm still open for better suggestions.

The namespace should really be called global. I doubt this will fly, because it's too radical, and unfortunately would undermine the "global" keyword, used in 2.x to indicate that a name should be sought in the module namespace.

There are quite a few other places where "globals" is used with that meaning.

I doubt many people would want to replace "global" with "module".

What's it being replaced with in 3.x?

Nothing yet, it's still there, together with "nonlocal".

Georg

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