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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Nov 29 18:54:09 CET 2007

I nearly choked on my coffee when I read the "naming rights" suggestion. :-)

Then I started leaning towards universal.

But then I thought, what if we renamed the builtin module instead to builtins, and left builtins alone?

In Python 0.1, builtin was called builtin, and I think the reason for renaming it wasn't particularly well thought-out; as a module, I'm not sure that it really needs to have such a special name (I don't think it's more special than sys, anyway). There's no motivation in the checkin comment that renamed it (r3527).

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