[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Fredrik Lundh wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > The builtins section should be moved to the language > > > reference manual. The material it documents is part > > > of the language definition, not part of an add-on library. > > > > the standard library is not an add-on. you're confused. > > Your probably talking about internal implementation. > I'm talking about user's perception. A "python" that > had a different set of builtins would not be python. > That makes it more useful to view it as part of the > language, not a library even if it happens to be > implemented that way.
no, I'm talking about how things are used, not how things happen to look inside your head. you seem to think that everything that lives in the __builtin__ module are fundamental parts of the language, but that any- thing that can be explicitly imported into a user module is an "add-on". that's not how things work. if you want to move "fundamental parts" to a different document, you have to move a lot more than just the functions in the __builtin__ module. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
