[Python-Dev] Making builtins more efficient (original) (raw)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Mon Mar 13 21:14:09 CET 2006

At 02:47 PM 3/13/2006 -0500, Jim Jewett wrote:

Paul Moore wrote:

> Is there any practical way of detecting and flagging > constructs like the above (remotely shadowing a > builtin in another module)? Phillip J. Eby wrote: > the patch ended up being backed out ... too strict > of a check to be accepted for Python 2.4. http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Objects/moduleobject.c It was revision 33054, backed out in 33084. The patch warned about any shadowing of builtins, which probably is too strict.

I'm curious: what actually happened? What things were causing warnings?

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