Third Draft: Pep for Deprecating Builtins

[gbreed at cix.compulink.co.uk]

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:

> > 5.  oct() is another candidate based on the rarity of usage
> > 
> 
> so should we remove the left and right bit shift ops too then?  oct() 
> may be
> rarely used but having it keeps me from writing C or perl code.

If oct() were to be (re)moved, the few cases where it's needed could be 
replaced with %o formatting.  So if we are looking to sacrifice builtin 
functions that's one to consider.


                      Graham