pre-PEP generic objects

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Fri Dec 3 17:59:35 EST 2004


Istvan Albert wrote:
> On the other hand, it would be nice to have a module that
> implements various design patterns. The Bunch, the Borg, the Null,
> the Proxy all nicely documented tucked away in their separate
> module. That would feel a lot less like littering the standard name space
> with an class that just "seems"  to be useful.

 From the (pre-)PEP:

"This PEP proposes a standard library addition..."

Bunch would go into the standard library (probably the collections 
module) not to the __builtins__.  I don't see how this "litters the 
standard namespace".

Steve



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