On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:57 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> > wrote: >> [Update: it seems this is already reflected in the PEP. I wonder >> where the requirement for "a new type" comes from. I think making >> it a module should be conforming, even though probably discouraged >> for cpython, as it would make people think that they can rely on >> it being a module. > > > That stems from people arguing over whether sys.implementation should be a > dict or a tuple, and people going "it shouldn't be a sequence since it lacks > a proper order", but then others saying "it shouldn't be a dict because it > isn't meant to be mutated" (or something since I argued for the dict). So > Eric (I suspect) went with what made sense to him.
Yep. -eric _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
