Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu>: > Part of the answer is Python's history. Up to about 2.1, most built-in > types did not have methods, though I know lists did. Ints and strings > did not, or chr and ord might have been int.chr() and str.ord(). (The > current string methods were originally functions in the string > module.)
Ints still aren't quite like regular objects. For example: >>> x = 500 >>> x.__str__ is x.__str__ False Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
