Newbie pythoner, with bizzare problem
Paul Prescod
paul at prescod.net
Sat Jul 22 16:27:16 EDT 2000
Gordon McMillan wrote:
>
> Only sometimes. At other times __builtins__ is a dictionary, so
>
> inp = __builtins__.open("...")
>
> would fail, and you'd have to use
>
> inp = __builtins__['open']("....")
Why is __builtins__ a shape-shifter?
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