Muddleheaded use of the "built-in" term

2014-10-07 Thread Marco Buttu
I always thought the builtin objects were those we can get from the `builtins` module, that is those always available. In fact the "Built-in Functions" documentation: https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html says: """The Python interpreter has a number of functions and types built int

Re: Muddleheaded use of the "built-in" term

2014-10-07 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 12:24 AM, Marco Buttu wrote: > Is it too late for changing the name of the `builtin` namespace in something > like, for instance, `root` namespace, or using the name "core" > (inspect.iscore(), types.CoreFunctionType, ecc.) to indicate "written in C"? Yes, I think it's too

Muddleheaded use of the "built-in" term

2014-10-07 Thread Marco Buttu
I always thought the builtin objects were those we can get from the `builtins` module, that is those always available. In fact the "Built-in Functions" documentation: https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html says: """The Python interpreter has a number of functions and types built int