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Author ncoghlan
Recipients Jeremy.Hylton, Trundle, alex, benjamin.peterson, brett.cannon, daniel.urban, dmalcolm, eltoder, eric.snow, georg.brandl, gregory.p.smith, jcon, mark.dickinson, meador.inge, nadeem.vawda, ncoghlan, pitrou, rhettinger, santoso.wijaya, techtonik, terry.reedy, vstinner
Date 2012-09-06.00:48:56
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No, you're assuming global program analysis and *that is not a valid assumption*.

One of the key features of Python is that *monkeypatching works*. It's not encouraged, but it works.

You simply cannot play games with name lookups like this without creating something that is no longer Python.
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2012-09-06 00:48:57ncoghlansetrecipients: + ncoghlan, brett.cannon, georg.brandl, rhettinger, terry.reedy, gregory.p.smith, mark.dickinson, pitrou, vstinner, techtonik, nadeem.vawda, benjamin.peterson, alex, Trundle, dmalcolm, meador.inge, daniel.urban, Jeremy.Hylton, santoso.wijaya, eltoder, eric.snow, jcon
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