Why does __builtins__ mean different things...

[Fredrik Lundh]

James Stroud wrote:

>>> But....what the heck? You mean if I drop an s I get predictable 
>>> behavior and if I don't, I get unpredictable behavior?
 >>
>> You don't get unpredictable behavior, you just get different behavior 
>> you didn't expect, which is not the same thing.  Python is a programming 
>> language, like any other; randomly dropping letters in names is going to 
>> result in bad behavior, so be more careful about it.
> 
> Are you responding to some other thread? Its like you read every other 
> word and then filled in the rest randomly...

 From what I can tell, the message Erik replied to looks the same in my 
newsfeed, so if you are convinced that you *didn't* write the part about 
how documented behaviour (*) is unpredictable just because you haven't 
learned about it yet, it might be a network problem at your end.

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*) http://docs.python.org/lib/module-builtin.html