[Python-3000] builtin and builtins (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Mar 12 23:12:07 CET 2007

Ka-Ping Yee wrote:

We have "import as", though. If you want to import the default builtins without using them as the builtins, you can say

import builtin as defaultbuiltin

Seems to me it would be better to rename the module to a non-double-underscore name. There's really nothing magical about the module itself, only the name used by global variable lookups. So just call the module 'builtins', and then you can do

import builtins   # get the module with no magic happening

import mystuff as __builtins__ # change my builtin namespace

import builtins as __builtins__  # restore default builtin namespace

-- Greg

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