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Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers

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On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Mark Janssen
<dreamingforward@gmail.com> wrote:
>> There's no point forcing them to be looked up in a two-step process.
>> If you want that, you can simply reference them as
>> __builtins__.whatever, but you can instead just reference them as the
>> unadorned name whatever. They contribute heavily to the simplicity and
>> readability of Python code - imagine if every call to len() had to be
>> qualified.
>
> Well I would anticipate a keyword ("load"?) so one could load a
> particular namespace into the global scope.  The issue I guess is when
> should modules be "on file" vs. "in memory" like the builtins?  The
> reason this is coming up, is because I would like to imagine a data
> ecosystem, where I can import a set of objects from the network as if
> they are local right into my interpreter environment.

The syntax you describe is effectively:

from __builtins__ import *

ChrisA

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Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2013-06-10 17:18 -0700
  Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-06-12 14:24 +0000
    Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2013-06-12 12:40 -0700
    Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-13 06:30 +1000
    Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2013-06-12 16:07 -0700
    Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-13 09:53 +1000
      Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-06-13 00:47 +0000
    Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-06-12 19:06 -0500
    Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2013-06-12 17:26 -0700
      Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-06-13 01:23 +0000
        Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2013-06-13 11:09 +0100
    Re: "Don't rebind built-in names*" - it confuses readers Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-13 10:28 +1000

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