Xavier Combelle added the comment: It is not the dictionary of builtin module, which is inserted in , but the current __builtin__ global which happen to be normally the dictionnary of builtin. Hence in the following code, the builtins propagation works has expected.
>>> eval("""eval('spam("hello >>> world")',{})""",{"__builtins__":{"eval":eval,"spam":print}}) hello world ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26363> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com