Me: If I ask for type(__builtins__) I get a list of all the things
dicts can do, not the contents of the module.
Of course I should have said dir(__builtins__) above
(not type).
Anyway, I was glad to clear this up. I’m guessing
the use of both __builtin__ and __builtins__ is not
Spyder’s
Andre: I think you mean simply __builtins__, without the dir().
I was puzzled by this remark at first but now I’m seeing
why.
When I boot into the Python shell directly from bash,
and ask for the type of __builtins__ i.e. type(__builtins__),
I get back that it’s a module. Then
