Message3878

Our builtin module's __dict__s don't have what you'd expect to see in 
CPython, they contain the remnants of our Java Integration:

Jython 2.5b0+ (trunk:5704:5712M, Dec 5 2008, 22:53:44) 
[Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (Apple Inc.)] on java1.6.0_07
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>>> import sys
>>> sys.version_info > (2, 4)
True
>>> sys.__dict__['version_info'] > (2, 4)
False
>>> sys.__dict__['version_info']
<reflected field public static org.python.core.PyTuple 
org.python.core.PySystemState.version_info 1>

Which makes these __dict__s fairly useless and error prone. Occasionally 
there is good reason to go directly into them -- e.g. when wanting to 
specify a module dict for the scope of an exec statement

On a somewhat related note, the fact that our builtin modules aren't 
actual modules (assert isinstance(sys, types.ModuleType)) can also be 
annoying. I only mention it here because I think that fact might want to 
be considered in any fix for __dict__. It's really a different issue, 
though