Collin Winter wrote: > As it currently stands, the type of the global __builtins__ differs > depending on whether you're in the __main__ namespace (__builtins__ is > a module) or not (its a dict). I was recently tripped up by this > discrepancy, and googling the issue brings up half-a-dozen or so c.l.p > threads where others have been bitten by this, too.
__builtins__ is a CPython implementation detail. why not just let it be an implementation detail, and refrain from using it? it's not that hard, really. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
