Perl is worse!
Ben Wolfson
rumjuggler at cryptarchy.org
Fri Jul 28 23:43:38 EDT 2000
On 28 Jul 2000 20:32:45 GMT, m.faassen at vet.uu.nl (Martijn Faassen) wrote:
>> Shoot yourself with "conversion" or with assignments like this, either way
>> your foot is shot. I say learn proper gun safty and aim it elsewhere. ;)
>> Seriously, that isn't to say that None should be restricted from being
>> changed, just, uh, anyone know how to change it back aside from restarting
>> python? :)
>
>Cute question. Hm..
>
>Yes:
>
>None = __builtins__.None
>
>Now for the real problem:
>
>__builtins__.None = 1
>
>Uh oh.
>>> def getnone():
pass
>>> import __builtin__
>>> __builtin__.None = 1
>>> type(getnone())
<type 'None'>
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