builtin functions

[Johan]

hi.

I'm having a small problem at the moment with a program in python I'm 
working on. 
The problem is that I seem to loose access to the builtin functions when I 
try to call them inside a method of a class. 

What should be:
  attr_type = type(builder.current, attr)
now has to be:
  attr_type = str(__builtins__['type'](getattr(builder.current, attr)))

Does anyone know why I loose direct access to the builtin functions? am I 
doing something wrong?

Regards,
Johan Jonkers