Third Draft: Pep for Deprecating Builtins

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 29-Apr-2002 Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> From the comments, I've learned:
> 
> 1. map, filter, divmod, and pow may be immovable and should
>     be left alone.
> 
> 2. reduce has fewer friends, but should probably also be
>     left alone
> 

thank you, thank you.  Gah, I could not imagine being forced to use list
comprehensions everywhere.

> 4. apply() was repeatedly suggested as another candidate for
>     deprecation since the * and ** forms make it obsolete
> 
> 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.