Newbie pythoner, with bizzare problem

[Paul Prescod]

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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