[Python-Dev] sys.setcheckinterval doc problems (original) (raw)

Alex Martelli aleaxit@yahoo.com
Wed, 2 Jul 2003 13:29:29 -0700 (PDT)

My only net access at the moment is through a browser, so I can't easily prepare a patch, but I noticed that, while the default check interval in 2.3 is now 100 bytecode instructions, it's still documented as 10 in api/init.tex, lib/libsys.tex and Misc/cheatsheet .

As I was checking that, I was struck by the fact that having "write-only" settings is quite an anomaly -- e.g. it makes writing a function that sets the check interval to 0 temporarily, fiddles around a bit, then sets it back to the previous value, a bit of trouble.

Now that the check interval is a global variable, is there any problem with making it readable (presumably with a new sys.getcheckinterval() function) as well as writable? [I was of course messing around with the new PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc call, which btw seems to be working just fine, and playing with the check interval as part of that...]

Alex