Martin v. Löwis added the comment: hackcheck fixes the "Carlo Verry hack", which goes like this:
py> object.__setattr__(str, 'lower', str.upper) py> 'dammit Carlo!'.lower() 'DAMMIT CARLO!' (from http://bugs.jython.org/issue1058) It shouldn't be possible to monkey-patch a builtin type; I believe this is to prevent crashes when self has the incorrect layout. Other than that, I find that an arbitrary restriction, except that setattr/attribute assignment prevent an assignment from occurring, it shouldn't be possible to bypass this by calling __setattr__. So if the restriction could be lifted, it should be lifted in both cases. What specific decimal test is failing? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15722> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
