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  Re: Peculiar Behaviour of __builtins__ "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-py2@yahoo.com.ar> - 2011-05-12 23:02 -0300

#5279 — Re: Peculiar Behaviour of __builtins__

En Thu, 12 May 2011 22:59:24 -0300, Gabriel Genellina  
<gagsl-py2@yahoo.com.ar> escribió:

> En Thu, 12 May 2011 20:29:57 -0300, Aman Nijhawan  
> <amannijhawan@gmail.com> escribió:
>
>> I was trying to call the builtin function min by using
>> getattr(__builtins__,'min')
>>
>> This works at the interpretter prompt
>>
>> However when I called it inside a module that was imported by another  
>> module
>> it fails and gives an attribute error
>
> __builtins__ (note the final 's') is an implementation detail. You want  
> the __builtin__ (no 's') module, renamed 'builtin' in Python 3.x

Should read "...renamed 'builtins' in Python 3.x, just to add to the  
confusion." :)


-- 
Gabriel Genellina

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