[Python-Dev] towards a faster Python

Barry Warsaw barry@python.org
10 Jun 2003 12:05:04 -0400


On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 11:57, Bernhard Herzog wrote:

> There's even precedence in the standard library for modifying __builtins__:
> 
> (gettext.py, lines 219ff):
> 
>     def install(self, unicode=False):
>         import __builtin__
>         __builtin__.__dict__['_'] = unicode and self.ugettext or self.gettext

Yes, but this sucks. :)

-Barry