Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> added the comment: As far as I know, not as a top-level module in an installed version of Python (at least, not without mucking about in the registry). Shadowing standard library modules is generally a bad idea, and this is one of the reasons. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12648> _______________________________________