RE: [Edu-sig] Re: [Tutor] How to deal with strange errors?

April 26, 2002


      [Danny Yoo]
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3. Is it possible to rebind input() to it's original built-in function
   without restarting the whole machinery.
Although 'input' in the global environment is bound to that string now,
it's still possible to fix this by going through the __builtin__ module
and refix things:
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input = 'argh'
input
'argh'
from __builtin__ import *
input
<built-in function input>
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That's probably one way of doing it.
Here is another:
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input = 'blah'
input
'blah'
input = __builtins__['input']  # Note the trailing 's'
input
<built-in function input>
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Patrick K. O'Brien
Orbtech