Shadowing builtins (was Re: a pyrex-inspired for-i-from-1-to-n...)

[Aahz]

In article <3E8B7D49.829034FF at engcorp.com>,
Peter Hansen  <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
>
>I hope Greg's comments about being able to disable this are on the
>mark, because otherwise this would be a clear case of a desire for
>(unnecessary, IMHO) optimization being given higher priority than
>maintaining one of Python's strongest advantages.  Speed will *never*
>be Python's strongest suit, but its dynamicism clearly is; let's not
>bugger that up!

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but I was under the impression
that disabling the ability to munge another module's namespace was at
least partly driven by the desire to enable secure code.
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