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Author	loewis
Recipients	DragonFireCK, Horpner, alex, benjamin.peterson, brett.cannon, bruno.dupuis, cvrebert, daniel.urban, georg.brandl, ikelly, loewis, meador.inge, mrabarnett, ncoghlan, python-dev, steven.daprano, terry.reedy
Date	2012-12-06.15:37:02
SpamBayes Score	-1.0
Marked as misclassified	Yes
Message-id	<1354808223.01.0.0127447207455.issue16619@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I claim that this is not a bug in the existing versions. It is documented as "illegal" to assign to None: http://docs.python.org/2.7/library/constants.html?highlight=none#None So what exactly happens if you manage to bypass the existing checks is implementation-specific (or, in the C sense, "undefined behavior"). Therefore, the reaction of Python 2.7 (e.g.) is perfectly fine.

I claim that this is not a bug in the existing versions. It is documented as "illegal" to assign to None:

http://docs.python.org/2.7/library/constants.html?highlight=none#None

So what exactly happens if you manage to bypass the existing checks is implementation-specific (or, in the C sense, "undefined behavior"). Therefore, the reaction of Python 2.7 (e.g.) is perfectly fine.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-12-06 15:37:03	loewis	set	recipients: + loewis, brett.cannon, georg.brandl, terry.reedy, ncoghlan, ikelly, Horpner, benjamin.peterson, mrabarnett, steven.daprano, alex, cvrebert, meador.inge, daniel.urban, python-dev, DragonFireCK, bruno.dupuis
2012-12-06 15:37:03	loewis	set	messageid: <1354808223.01.0.0127447207455.issue16619@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2012-12-06 15:37:02	loewis	link	issue16619 messages
2012-12-06 15:37:02	loewis	create