On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 11:47 AM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > I know this suggestion is withdrawn and the thread all but finished, but > for completion, I'd like to answer one of Chris' questions: > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 04:48:58AM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > I'll have to get someone else to confirm, but I believe that str, int, > > etc were functions for a lot of Python's history. > > I don't know if the first eleven years counts as "a lot" of Python's > history (it's about 1/3rd of Python's existence at this point), but in > Python 1.x and some of 2.x, str, int, float, list etc were all actual > functions and couldn't be subclassed: > > It wasn't until Python 2.2 that builtin types and classes were unified, > becoming the same thing; the functions str, int, etc became classes; and > every object in Python was consolidated into a single heirarchy with > `object` as the root. > > https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.2.3/descrintro/ >
Thanks, that's what I was thinking of. Most notably, we have several independent occasions when a builtin function was replaced with a class that could be used in all the same ways: Python 2.2 for str/int etc, Python 3.0 for range/map/zip, and I can't recall others right now, but there probably have been. BTW, when I said "someone else" there, I was thinking of you and your history lessons, so, thank you :) ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/XBHKWBWTZT2OQXFQVLX7YUN67JP466FZ/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
