On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Rick Johnson >> <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> It is my strong opinion that all "unqualified" variables must be local to >>> the containing block, func/meth, class, or module. To access any variable >>> outside of the local scope a programmer MUST qualify that variable with >>> the func, class, or module identifiers. Consider the following examples >> >> Okay. Now start actually working with things, instead of just making >> toys. All your builtins now need to be qualified: >> >> __builtins__.print("There >> are",__builtins__.len(self.some_list),"members in this list, >> namely:",__builtins__.repr(self.some_list)) > > > Pardon me, but since __builtins__ is a global, you have to say: > > globals.__builtins__.print("screw this for a game of soldiers") > > or equivalent.
And isn't globals a builtin? ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list