Re: [Python-Dev] Classes that claim to be defined in __builtin__ but aren't

On Aug 9, 2004, at 6:16 PM, Jim Fulton wrote:

James Y Knight wrote:

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IMO classes ought to actually appear in __builtin__ if they claim they are defined there. Doing otherwise breaks reflection, as you have to add a special case for these class names to use the appropriate object from the types module instead. Thoughts?

I agree.

I think this should stand for functions as well. help() is a good example. It's a bit confusing for newbies that help.__module__ is 'site', but 'site' isn't in their local namespace. -- Nick