From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 23:53:33 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Use __stdin__ instead of stdin to derive FileType -- safer against
X-Git-Tag: v1.5.2b1~54
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1f05708f69bb90d2892b4e5c9521b19c1574c6b1;p=python

Use __stdin__ instead of stdin to derive FileType -- safer against
assignments.
---

diff --git a/Lib/types.py b/Lib/types.py
index c440a5cdf7..70e624a091 100644
--- a/Lib/types.py
+++ b/Lib/types.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ BuiltinMethodType = type([].append)     # Same as BuiltinFunctionType
 ModuleType = type(sys)
 
 try:
-    FileType = type(sys.stdin)          # XXX what if it was assigned to?
+    FileType = type(sys.__stdin__)
 except:
     pass
 XRangeType = type(xrange(0))