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

Oren Tirosh oren-py-d@hishome.net
Fri, 28 Mar 2003 04:44:42 -0500

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:51:13PM -0800, Neil Schemenauer wrote:

Guido van Rossum wrote: > Though you probably would only want to warn when this is done to a .py > module -- C extensions should be exempt.

Exempt from poking or being poked? > And the warning should only warn about inserting names that are > actually builtins. I have rough patch. The idea is to have the tpsetattro slot of modules check if the name being set is a builtin.

Does it check if it's one of the standard builtin module or whether it is an attribute of whatever object is currently set as the module's builtins attribute?

Oren