[pypy-dev] New __builtin__

[holger krekel]

[Scott Fenton Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 08:25:23AM -0500]
> Yes, everyone, it is the moment you have all dreaded.
> A new version of pure python __builtin__s. This version
> contains nudity, sexual references, chr implemented
> using '%c'%i, an optimized ord, multiarg map and
> zip, and the new functions unichr, oct, hex, staticmethod,
> *attr (for * in (get,has,set)), isinstance, issubclass,
> and slice. I did not include classmethod as this seems
> to warrent further discussion. Stuff I think can be easily
> done in python that haven't been yet: dir, raw_input, reload,
> round, and xrange.

aehm, did i miss anything or was your attachment lost? 

> thinks-python-can-be-faster-than-c-ly yours,

depends-on-what-you-measure-anyway-ly y'rs,

    holger