On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 5:27 AM Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas
<python-ideas@python.org> wrote:
>
> By the way, intern was still there until 2.7, but in that list of “we can’t 
> deprecate these but please never use them” functions at the end of builtins, 
> so you didn’t actually need 1.5 to test it. But I understand; you can never 
> be too sure that the 2.0 license won’t turn out to be as unusable as the 1.6 
> license, so you need something to fall back on. :)
>

It's still around - it's just called sys.intern() instead of being a builtin.

ChrisA
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