On Jan 3, 2:07 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This hal always been possible. But it's not reassigning, it's shadowing - > which is a totally different beast. Shadowing builtins is bad style, but > lokal to your context. Which can get nasty of course, if you do the above > on e.g. module level. > > But you can't alter the values for True/False globally with this.
Are you sure ? what about the following example ? Is this also shadowing ? Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Sep 19 2006, 09:52:17) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import __builtin__ >>> __builtin__.True = False >>> __builtin__.True False >>> True False Berni -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
