James> But then again, maybe the consistency I perceive for the rest of James> __builtins__ is more or less illusory. This might have been the James> point of Fredrik's question.
As I implied in my note, there is a difference between fundamental builtins like open and Exception, and convenience builtins like exit and license. If you make that distinction and only really worry about consistency within the fundamental builtins I think you'll be on more solid ground. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list