On Oct 29, 2015 6:26 PM, "Terry Reedy" wrote:
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> On 10/29/2015 11:59 AM, Laura Creighton wrote:
>>
>>
>> see the following:
>> lac@smartwheels:~/junk$ echo "print ('hello there')" >string.py
>> lac@smartwheels:~/junk$ idle-python3.5
>> hello there
>> Traceback (most recent call
On 30.10.15 03:22, Terry Reedy wrote:
Leaving IDLE aside, the reason '' is added to sys.path is so that people
can import their own modules. This is very useful. Shadowing is the
result of putting it at the front. I have long thought this a dubious
choice. If '' were instead appended, people
On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 at 21:42 Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 10/30/2015 3:21 AM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
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> > AFAIK the sys module can't be shadowed.
>
> I tried it and it seems to be true of builtins in general.
>
The importer on sys.meta_path that handles built-ins is earlier than
On 10/30/2015 3:21 AM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
AFAIK the sys module can't be shadowed.
I tried it and it seems to be true of builtins in general.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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