Third Draft: Pep for Deprecating Builtins

Michael Gilfix mgilfix at eecs.tufts.edu
Mon Apr 29 16:36:53 EDT 2002


  For an interesting use of apply, check out the way the pygtk
bindings are generated. While it can easily be argued that apply could
be avoided, here's an example where a large code-base will quickly be
broken.

             -- Mike

On Mon, Apr 29 @ 12:42, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > 4. apply() was repeatedly suggested as another candidate for
> >     deprecation since the * and ** forms make it obsolete

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