[Python-Dev] what can we do to hide the 'file' type?

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Jul 6 07:24:03 CEST 2006


Brett Cannon wrote:
> Can anyone think of any other way to gain access to 'file' without
> importing a module?

In principle, it might be possible to find file in the func_defaults
or func_globals of some function, which might be defined as

orig_file = file
def file(...):
    ...

I couldn't find any such function in the standard library, though.

Regards,
Martin


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