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@vstinner vstinner commented Feb 21, 2026

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vstinner commented Mar 3, 2026

The PR is now ready for review.

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vstinner commented Mar 3, 2026

cc @skirpichev

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vstinner commented Mar 3, 2026

It's still possible to modify builtins, unless builtins is declared as a frozendict:

# module __builtins__
>>> fd=frozendict(__builtins__=__builtins__)
>>> exec("__builtins__.x = 1", fd, fd)

# dict __builtins__
>>> fd=frozendict(__builtins__=__builtins__.__dict__)
>>> exec("__builtins__['x'] = 1", fd, fd)

# frozendict __builtins__
>>> fd=frozendict(__builtins__=frozendict(__builtins__.__dict__))
>>> exec("__builtins__['x'] = 1", fd, fd)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  ...
TypeError: 'frozendict' object does not support item assignment

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vstinner commented Mar 4, 2026

@skirpichev: I removed the sentence from the documentation, and I replaced it with a more precise error message if assigning __builtins__ to the frozendict globals fails. Please review the updated PR.

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