On Fri, Feb 20, 2009, Brett Cannon wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:37, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:31, Daniel Stutzbach < >> dan...@stutzbachenterprises.com> wrote: >>> >>> A slight change would make it work for modules where only key functions >>> have been rewritten. For example, pickle.py could read: >>> >>> from _pypickle import * >>> try: from _pickle import * >>> except ImportError: pass >> >> True, although that still suffers from the problem of overwriting things >> like __name__, __file__, etc. > > Actually, I take that back; the IMPORT_STAR opcode doesn't pull in anything > starting with an underscore. So while this alleviates the worry above, it > does mean that anything that gets rewritten needs to have a name that does > not lead with an underscore for this to work. Is that really an acceptable > compromise for a simple solution like this?
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