LHB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch a écrit : > > `__builtins__` is an implementation detail, and `__builtin__` is a name > > of a module you can import. You should not use `__builtins__` but import > > `__builtin__` and inspect that instead of `__builtins__`. > Ok. Should I only see `__builtins__` as an access to builtin > functions/exception/... ?
No, if you want that access, explicitly 'import __builtin__' and access them that way. Ignore '__builtins__' altogether as an implementation detail. (This is difficult to adhere to because the names are confusingly similar; this is an acknowledged wart in current Python.) IIRC this behaviour will change in Python 3.0, where 'import __builtin__' will be the *only* way to get at builtins from normal code. At least, I'm now writing my code as though that's the case :-) -- \ “The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of | `\ importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is | _o__) allowed to take.” —C. Northcote Parkinson | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
