On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Anand Chitipothu <anandol...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 2009/4/3 Anand Chitipothu <anandol...@gmail.com>:
> > I'm noticed a strange Import error in some web.py template. I nailed
> > down the problem to the following python code.
> >
> > __builtins__ = {}
> >
> > import datetime
> > now = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
> > print now.strftime("%m %Y")
> >
> > It fails with the following error.
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "foo.py", line 6, in <module>
> > print now.strftime("%m %Y")
> > KeyError: '__import__'
> >
> > Any experts around for explaining this behavior?
>
> Another strange behavior:
>
> when run as script, it fails at the last line and when run tried in
> interpreter, it fails at the import.
When you import a module on the interpreter prompt, it is done
using the builtin function __import__. So here you are setting
__builtins__ dictionary (it is actually a module, not a dict, so
this itself is strange) which removes all builtin function bindings.
Hence when you are trying to import in interpreter prompt,
it looks around for __import__ from __builtins__ module, does
not find it and gives the error.
I can't explain what is happening when it is run as a module.
Perhaps here the import is not a simple __import__ , and
hence it works - anyway that needs more explanation.
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-Anand
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