I find this a disturbing trend. I think we have bigger fish to fry and this sounds like it could slow down startup.
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 8:35 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13 September 2017 at 09:46, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurren...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > The sys module is a rather special case as far as modules go. It is > > effectively a "console" into the interpreter's internal state and that > > includes some mutable state. Since it is a module, we don't have much > > of an opportunity to: > > > > * validate values assigned to its attributes [1] > > * issue DeprecationWarning for deprecated attrs [2] > > * alias attrs [2] > > * replace get (and get/set) functions with properties > > * re-organize sys [3] > > +1 from me, specifically because there are edge cases we don't > generally test (e.g. folks rebinding sys.modules to nonsense), and it > would be nice to be able to upgrade those from "don't do that" to "the > obvious way of doing that just plain isn't allowed". > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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