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authorNeil Schemenauer <nascheme@enme.ucalgary.ca>2003-07-16 22:19:24 (GMT)
committerNeil Schemenauer <nascheme@enme.ucalgary.ca>2003-07-16 22:19:24 (GMT)
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Remove code that tried to warn about shadowing builtin names after a
module had been compiled. It gives too many spurious warnings.
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@@ -145,12 +145,6 @@ Core and builtins
instead of going through __getitem__. If __getitem__ access is
preferred, then __iter__ can be overridden.
-- Creating an attribute on a module (i.e. a global variable created by
- __setattr__) that causes a builtin name to be shadowed now raises a
- DeprecationWarning. In future versions of Python the effect may be
- undefined (in order to allow for optimization of global and builtin
- name lookups).
-
- SF bug 735247: The staticmethod and super types participate in
garbage collection. Before this change, it was possible for leaks to
occur in functions with non-global free variables that used these types.