[Python-Dev] Protecting __name__ &c.

[Moshe Zadka]

On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:

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

Well, special casing seems like a bad idea on the face of it. Where does
it stop? The correct way to "solve" this, is to add declarations to
Python, including "constant" declaration, and then saying that __name__
and __file__ are "implicitly declared" constants.

please-scatter-IMHOs-generously-throughtout-the-mail-ly y'rs, Z.
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