John Salerno wrote: > Just wondering if this will ever happen, maybe in 3.0 when print becomes > a function too? It would be a nice option to have it available without > importing it every time, but maybe making it a builtin violates some > kind of pythonic ideal?
There are so many things which *could* be builtins, and it really is better not to pollute the global namespace with more than absolutely necessary. Personally I'd just like to see 'python' a builtin shorthand for importing a name you aren't going to use much e.g. python.pprint.pprint(x) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list