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[Greg Ewing]

Robin Becker wrote:
> 
> So the question now is, how do I tell if __import__ is the built in one
> even if the import system is not fully initialized.

You could compare its type with what you really
should have been comparing it with in the
first place:

  import types
  if type(__import__) == types.BuiltinFunctionType:
    ...

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