[pypy-dev] Taking pypy for a test drive

[Nicholas Riley]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 09:50:59AM -0400, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
> It seems likely that what django ought to be doing is:
> 
>     import __builtin__
>     __builtin__._ = first_time_gettext
> 
> And a similar change in first_time_gettext.  __builtin__/__builtins__ is
> a bit subtle and I might be forgetting something, but I think the above
> is correct.  I remember that __builtins__ is somethings a dict instead of
> the __builtin__ module, but I forget when (and I couldn't find the case
> with a few simple tests).  I think python-dev has pointed out that this
> is an implementation detail of CPython on several occassions, though, and
> that explicitly importing the __builtin__ module is the right thing to
> do.

It's documented in the Python reference manual.

<http://docs.python.org/ref/naming.html>

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