Read the 6th mail sent chronologically. Will do.
Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer Mauritius On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, 02:26 Steven D'Aprano, <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 10:47:06PM +0400, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > Just like builtins module, would it be a good idea to have a stdlib > module > > so that we can know all modules in the std lib (just like builtins let us > > know builtins)? > > The builtins module doesn't exist only so we can "know builtins". If the > only purpose of this proposal is to "know all modules in the std lib", > it is better to just read the docs: > > https://docs.python.org/3/library/index.html > > One possible advantage here might be to distinguish between: > > import math > > from stdlib import math > > where the first one will use whatever "math" module appears first on the > Python path, while the second will use the actual standard math module. > But is this useful? > > Distinguishing between (for example) an open function defined in your > module, and the builtins open, *is* useful and common: > > open # Modules may shadows the builtin function. > > builtins.open > > but it isn't clear to me that shadowing parts of the std lib is useful > or common (except by accident, which is a problem to fix not a feature > to encourage). > > I think if you are interested in this, you ought to start by defining > the benefits of the proposal: what do you expect to gain? > > > > -- > Steven > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/BBBLQ3M44TYNPDEU35325WBVDOCF2BPN/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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