Can "self" crush itself?

[Terry Reedy]

n00m wrote:
>> Or just raise an exception in __init__(),..
> 
> Then we are forced to handle this exception outside of class code.
> It's Ok. Never mind.
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> 
> Next thing.
> I can't understand why we can get __name__, but not __dict__,
> on the module level?
> 
> 
> print __name__
> print __dict__

If the global namespace contained itself, as a dict, there would be an 
infinite loop.