Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Sat Oct 31 01:13:28 EDT 2015

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On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 at 21:42 Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> On 10/30/2015 3:21 AM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
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> > AFAIK the sys module can't be shadowed.
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> I tried it and it seems to be true of builtins in general.
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The importer on sys.meta_path that handles built-ins is earlier than the
one that handles sys.path (technically you can shadow them if you changed
sys.meta_path).
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