On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 07:05:35PM +0100, Barry Scott wrote: > I assume the the idea is that everybody has Path available without the need > to do the import dance first. > > If its for personal convenience you can always do this trick, that is used by > gettext to make _ a builtin. > > import pathlib > import builtings > > builtins.__dict__['Path'] = pathlib.Path
The public API for getting the namespace of an object is vars(): vars(builtins)['Path'] but since builtins is just a module, the best way to add a new attribute to it is: builtins.Path = pathlib.Path -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
