Newbie pythoner, with bizzare problem

[Paul Prescod]

Gordon McMillan wrote:
> 
> >What surprises me, though, is that no one ever
> >mentions the possibility of writing
> >  inp = __builtin__.open("c:/autoexec.bat",'r')
> 
> Because __builtin__ is a module and has to be imported. And someone who
> says

Well yes, but not __builtins__ (with the "s")

Python 1.6a2 (#0, Apr  6 2000, 11:45:12) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> __builtins__
<module '__builtin__' (built-in)>

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