[Grue3]

The fact that you can overwrite built-in functions is not a point in favor of the language. Imagine you do this in a library and everyone using print() in their project would use a modified print instead. You could've just modified sys.stdout instead.

[eesmith]

Sure, but I never said I was doing this in library code. I mentioned I was using it to track down an unexpected print statement.

And the other example was in module scope.