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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Fri, 28 Mar 2003 07:26:54 -0500

> 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.

But you could rewrite LazyModule.py to use setattr(X, "spam", 42), right?

I don't think it's worth it to have a dict proxy that allows certain keys to be set but not others.

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