[issue3208] function annotation for builtin and C function
Haoyu Bai
report at bugs.python.org
Thu Jul 24 08:46:05 CEST 2008
Haoyu Bai <divinekid at gmail.com> added the comment:
I found the explanation of why buitl-ins are immutable:
For the curious: there are two reasons why changing built-in classes is
disallowed. First, it would be too easy to break an invariant of a
built-in type that is relied upon elsewhere, either by the standard
library, or by the run-time code. Second, when Python is embedded in
another application that creates multiple Python interpreters, the
built-in class objects (being statically allocated data structures) are
shared between all interpreters; thus, code running in one interpreter
might wreak havoc on another interpreter, which is a no-no.
(From http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.2.3/descrintro/)
Is the statement still valid for current version of Python?
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