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Re: Clearing globals in CPython

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On 01/10/2014 18:00, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> Out of curiosity, I ran:
>
> globals().clear()
>
> in the interactive interpreter. It broke much more than I expected!
> Built-ins were no longer available, and import stopped working.

Interesting... :D

> Obviously the easiest way to recover is to exit the current session and
> restart it, but as a challenge, can we recover from this state?

 >>> [].__class__.__module__ # It is a string...
'__builtin__'

So, I do not have any idea about how to get a module without importing 
something. Thanks for sharing :)

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Clearing globals in CPython Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-10-02 02:00 +1000
  Re: Clearing globals in CPython Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-10-02 02:14 +1000
  Re: Clearing globals in CPython Chris Kaynor <ckaynor@zindagigames.com> - 2014-10-01 10:08 -0700
  Re: Clearing globals in CPython Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-10-01 19:24 +0200
    Re: Clearing globals in CPython Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-10-02 18:11 +1000
      Re: Clearing globals in CPython Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-10-02 09:30 +0100
    Re: Clearing globals in CPython jakubo <jakubo@example.org> - 2014-10-06 09:05 +0000
      Re: Clearing globals in CPython Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-10-06 09:08 +0000
        Re: Clearing globals in CPython Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-10-06 20:30 +1100
  Re: Clearing globals in CPython Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-10-01 19:17 +0100
  Re: Clearing globals in CPython Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-10-01 14:44 -0400
  Re: Clearing globals in CPython Marco Buttu <marco.buttu@gmail.com> - 2014-10-01 18:39 +0200
  Re: Clearing globals in CPython Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-10-02 14:07 +0000
    Re: Clearing globals in CPython Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-10-03 00:12 +1000
    Re: Clearing globals in CPython Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2014-10-03 07:26 +0200

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