[Python-Dev] If you shadow a module in the standard library that IDLE depends on, bad things happen (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Sat Oct 31 01:13:28 EDT 2015


On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 at 21:42 Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

On 10/30/2015 3:21 AM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:

> AFAIK the sys module can't be shadowed. I tried it and it seems to be true of builtins in general.

The importer on sys.meta_path that handles built-ins is earlier than the one that handles sys.path (technically you can shadow them if you changed sys.meta_path). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20151031/515813ba/attachment.html>



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