[Python-Dev] Assignment to class of module? (Autoloading? (Making Queue.Queue easier to use)) (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Thu Oct 13 17:02:17 CEST 2005

Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

Phillip J. Eby wrote:

At 01:47 PM 10/13/2005 +1300, Greg Ewing wrote:

I'm trying to change the class of a newly-imported module to a subclass of types.ModuleType It happened in Python 2.3, actually. Is there a discussion anywhere about the reason this was done? It would be useful if this capability could be regained somehow without breaking things.

Well, I think it's undesirable that you be able to do this to, e.g., strings. Modules are something of a greyer area, I guess.

Cheers, mwh

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