[Python-Dev] Protecting __name__ &c.

[Ka-Ping Yee]

Would it be too much trouble to prevent replacing
double-underscore attributes like __name__ and __file__?

I'll accept a "consenting adults" argument -- it's just
that somehow this makes me uneasy:

    Python 1.5.2 (#54, Jul 14 1999, 12:50:51) [C] on irix6
    Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
    >>> import foo
    >>> foo.__name__
    'bar'
    >>> foo.__file__
    'bar.py'
    >>> foo
    <module 'bar' from 'bar.py'>

Of course, there is no 'bar.py'.  'foo.py' just contains

    __file__ = 'bar.py'
    __name__ = 'bar'

(If you say i deserved to be punished for such heresy, fine...)



-- ?!ng