[Python-Dev] Fast access to builtins (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Fri, 28 Mar 2003 09:38:28 +0100

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Guido van Rossum wrote:

I'd be happy to proclaim that doing something like

import X d = X.dict d["spam"] = 42 # or exec "spam = 42" in d is always prohibited.

That would break lazy module imports such as the one I'm using in mx.Misc.LazyModule.py.

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