[Python-Dev] PEP 329: Treating Builtins as Constants inthe Standard Library

[Greg Ewing]

"Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com>:

> It's already backwards-incompatible.  Currently, you can change the 
> behavior of a module by modifying its attributes.  A module that uses this 
> binding approach is immune to changes in its globals.  This is a 
> *seriously* backward incompatible change, as it essentially disallows 
> monkeypatching.

This suggests that there should be some way of disabling
the optimisation from *outside* the module. Not sure what
that would be, though.

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