[Python-Dev] towards a faster Python
Bernhard Herzog
bh@intevation.de
10 Jun 2003 17:57:23 +0200
Kevin Jacobs <jacobs@penguin.theopalgroup.com> writes:
> On 2003年6月10日, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > > I am talking about what mxTools is doing: adding new builtins to
> > > the interpreter by placing them into the __builtins__ dictionary.
> > > While I agree that it is usually better to use something like
> > > 'from x import *' or even naming the tools explicitly, some features
> > > in mxTools do warrant being made builtins, e.g. irange() has been
> > > most helpful in the past :-)
> >
> > You're not going to convince me to endorse that practice. End of story.
>> While not trying to convince you, I do have to say that we use this trick to
> provide implementations of builtins to code running under older Python
> versions.
There's even precedence in the standard library for modifying __builtins__:
(gettext.py, lines 219ff):
def install(self, unicode=False):
import __builtin__
__builtin__.__dict__['_'] = unicode and self.ugettext or self.gettext
Bernhard
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