On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 06:09:32PM -0200, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: > This is probably too little to justify the compatibility breakage,
Indeed. [...] > It seems to me it should lie on the "types" module (or some other > place), rather than > eat built-in namespace (which can confuse newcomers anyway). Have you actually come across newcomers who are confused by slice being a built-in? I've been on the tutor mailing list, and comp.lang.python, for many years now and I don't recall anyone even asking about slice let alone being confused by it. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/