On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Collin Winter wrote: > If possible, I'd like to see this go in before 3.0. The reference manual > currently states [2] that __builtins__ can be either a dict or a module, > so changing it to always be a module would still be in keeping with > this. However, I realise that there's probably code out there that > hasn't been written to deal with both types, so this would result in > some minor breakage (though it would be easily fixable).
Perhaps __builtins__ should be a magic module which could be accessed using subscripting as well as proper names (__builtins__["int"] as well as __builtins__.int), to avoid breakage. AFAICT, there's no easy way to do this at the moment: defining __getitem__ in a module doesn't give you a working [] operator on it. Have i screwed that up? If not, might it be possible to change this, so modules are treated the same as any other object in terms of handling []? I admit that this is the only use case for it, and it's a pretty weak one, but it would be good to be consistent, i think. > If this gets a good response, I'll kick it up to python-dev. +1 tom -- Gatsos are a stealth tax on motorists in the same way that city centre video cameras are a stealth tax on muggers and DNA testing is a stealth tax on rapists. -- Guy Chapman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
