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Sat Oct 31 01:13:28 EDT 2015 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2015-October/142091.html

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:
>
> > AFAIK the sys module can't be shadowed.
>
> I tried it and it seems to be true of builtins in general.
>

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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[Python-Dev] If you shadow a module in the standard library that IDLE depends on, bad things happen