Ray Holt wrote:
When I run a dir(_builtins_) I get the error message that the name
_builtins_ is not defined. I haven't tried the dir function on other
functions, but can someone tell me why I am getting this message? Thanks,
Ray
So close, and yet thrown by requisite extra underscores:
>>> dir(_builtins_) # one _ before and after
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name '_builtins_' is not defined
>>> dir(__builtins__) # two _'s before and after
['ArithmeticError', 'AssertionError', 'AttributeError',
'BaseException', 'DeprecationWarning', 'EOFError', 'Ellipsis',
'EnvironmentError', 'Exception', 'False',...]
-tkc
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