some time after posting my `Linkdict recipe`__ to aspn__
-- basically, a dictionary with run-time delegational
lookup, but this is not important here -- i thought gee
that would be fun to make such a customized dictionary
thingie an instance dictionary, and get some custom
namespace behavior out of
just tested the proposed implementation on a unicode-naive module
basically using
import sys
import __builtin__
reload( sys ); sys.setdefaultencoding( 'utf-8' )
__builtin__.__dict__[ 'str' ] = new_str_function
et voilà, str() calls in the module are rewritten, and
print u'düsseldorf' does