Clearing globals in CPython

[Marco Buttu]

On 01/10/2014 18:00, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> Out of curiosity, I ran:
>
> globals().clear()
>
> in the interactive interpreter. It broke much more than I expected!
> Built-ins were no longer available, and import stopped working.

Interesting... :D

> Obviously the easiest way to recover is to exit the current session and
> restart it, but as a challenge, can we recover from this state?

 >>> [].__class__.__module__ # It is a string...
'__builtin__'

So, I do not have any idea about how to get a module without importing 
something. Thanks for sharing :)

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