2013/8/24 Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu>: > On 8/24/2013 8:51 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote: >> >> Antoine Pitrou, 24.08.2013 13:53: >>> >>> This would also imply extension module have to be subclasses of the >>> built-in module type. They can't be arbitrary objects like Stefan >>> proposed. I'm not sure what the latter enables, but it would probably >>> make things more difficult internally. >> >> >> My line of thought was more like: if Python code can stick anything into >> sys.modules and the runtime doesn't care, why can't extension modules >> stick >> anything into sys.modules as well? > > > Being able to stick anything in sys.modules in CPython is an implementation > artifact rather than language feature.
This is not really true. Many people use this feature to replace modules as they are being imported with other things. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ 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
