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On 9/6/2017 1:18 PM, Gregory P. Smith wrote:

I'm not concerned about moving things into a state structure rather than wildly scattered globals declared all over the place. It is good code hygiene. It ultimately moves us closer (much more work to be done) to being able to actually have multiple independent interpreters within the same process (including potentially even of different Python versions).

For commonly typed things that get annoying,

#define \_Py\_grail \_PyRuntme.ceval.holy.grail

within the .c source file that does a lot of grail flinging seems fine to me.

-gps

You just need a PEP 550 (or 555) to use instead of C globals.

But why would you ever want multiple Python versions in one process? Sounds like a debug headache in the making. Name collisions would abound for libraries and functions even if globals were cured!