Terry J. Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> added the comment: To put it another way, IDLE is written for standard Python. A standard Python interpreter has a getattr builtin that works as documented in the library manual. Deleting that or any other builtin makes the interpreter non-standard. So would replacing or wrapping the builtin with a function that does anything other than innocuously augmenting the behavior with something like counting calls or logging them to a file.
Deletion of getattr *does* create problems for CPython (or any interpreter) in that legal Python code using getattr no longer runs. I presume CPython can limp along and execute other code because it directly calls the C function wrapped by the __builtins__.getattr object. ---------- resolution: wont fix -> invalid _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15113> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
