[Python-Dev] towards a faster Python (original) (raw)

Just van Rossum just@letterror.com
Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:01:43 +0200

Guido van Rossum wrote:

IOW:

# module foo def open(): return ... is fine, but import foo foo.open = 42 is not.

How about this:

module foo

def open(): ...

module bar

import foo foo.open = 42

?

(I would assume it to be ok, since the builtin name was already shadowed.)

Just