On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Mark Adam <dreamingforward@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
I'm not sure why "built-in module" is a better term for something which I gather is a separate namespace within a module, so you can have:
Yeah, I'm not really sure it makes sense to call it a module at all. I was sort of capitulating about the use of the word "module". It's not like you can do "import __builtins__" in the interpreter, so if one is going to call it a module (like the interpreter currently does), one should see that it is a very special exception of the word.
"import __builtin__" in Python 2, "import builtins" in Python 3. The contents of those modules are implicitly made available to all Python code running in that process. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia