D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
Is there ever any advantage to having something as a builtin rather than as a regular user method? What difference does it make to the running script? I can see that adding "bar" from module "foo" to "__builtins__" means that you can use "bar()" instead of "foo.bar()". Is that the only benefit?
basically, yes. in this case, it does make some sense to patch any/all into __builtin__, since they are builtins in a later version.
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