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[Python-Dev] Deprecating builtin id (and moving it to sys())
Reinhold Birkenfeldreinhold-birkenfeld-nospam at wolke7.net
Wed Aug 17 18:37:11 CEST 2005
Christian Robottom Reis wrote:> In Launchpad (mainly because SQLObject is used) we end up with quite a> few locals named id. Apart from the fact that naturally clobbering> builtins is a bad idea, we get quite a few warnings when linting> throughout the codebase. I've fixed these as I've found them, but today> Andrew pointed out to me that this is noted in:>>http://www.python.org/doc/essays/ppt/regrets/PythonRegrets.ppt>> I wonder: is moving id() to sys doable in the 2.5 cycle, with a> deprecation warning being raised for people using the builtin? We'd then> phase it out in one of the latter 2.x versions.>> I've done some searching through my code and id() isn't the most-used> builtin, so from my perspective the impact would be limited, but of> course others might think otherwise.>> Is it worth writing a PEP for this, or is it crack?As I can see, this is not going to happen before Py3k, as it is completelybreaking backwards compatibility. As such, a PEP would be unnecessary.Reinhold-- Mail address is perfectly valid!
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