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Re: Statement evals as False in my IDE and True elsewhere

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Date 2014-01-31 16:07 +1100
Subject Re: Statement evals as False in my IDE and True elsewhere
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.6191.1391144879.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
> On 1/30/2014 5:55 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 9:48 AM, CM <cmpython@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> builtin_all = __builtins__.all
>>>
>>> but I got the error:
>>>
>>> AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'all'
>>
>>
>> Try using square brackets notation instead. Apparently your
>> __builtins__ is a dictionary, not a module, though I don't know why
>
>
> For technical reasons Guido once explained and I have fogotten, it depends
> on whether you are in main module or an imported module -- and maybe the
> Python version.

Ah, okay. Anyway, the error message makes it clear. I love clear error messages.

ChrisA

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Statement evals as False in my IDE and True elsewhere CM <cmpython@gmail.com> - 2014-01-30 14:04 -0800
  Re: Statement evals as False in my IDE and True elsewhere Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-01-30 23:14 +0100
    Re: Statement evals as False in my IDE and True elsewhere CM <cmpython@gmail.com> - 2014-01-30 14:48 -0800
      Re: Statement evals as False in my IDE and True elsewhere Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-31 09:55 +1100
        Re: Statement evals as False in my IDE and True elsewhere CM <cmpython@gmail.com> - 2014-01-30 15:02 -0800
      Re: Statement evals as False in my IDE and True elsewhere Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-01-31 00:08 +0100
      Re: Statement evals as False in my IDE and True elsewhere Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-01-31 00:05 -0500
      Re: Statement evals as False in my IDE and True elsewhere Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-31 16:07 +1100
  Re: Statement evals as False in my IDE and True elsewhere Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-31 09:25 +1100
    Re: Statement evals as False in my IDE and True elsewhere CM <cmpython@gmail.com> - 2014-01-30 15:00 -0800
      Re: Statement evals as False in my IDE and True elsewhere Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-31 10:25 +1100
      Re: Statement evals as False in my IDE and True elsewhere Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-01-31 00:09 -0500

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