On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Antoon Pardon <antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be> wrote: > This is irrelevant. That some context defines a constant, and that you > can use a variable with the same name as a constant in python, doesn't > contradict the statement that python (as a language) doesn't has > constants. There is nothing in the language that would prevent buggy > code from changing any of those variables. So from a python point of > views these are just global variables. Just as the struct_global.y was > in the original contribution.
And there's nothing preventing a program from using ctypes to overwrite an object's refcount, thus causing a segfault. So? The issue was regarding imports, and it's perfectly safe to import a constant, even if the interpreter doesn't protect you from then being a total idiot and changing it. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
