[Python-Dev] Module properties for C modules (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri May 2 01:46:12 CEST 2008


On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:

Guido van Rossum schrieb:

> I don't see how it could work if any Python code is executed in the > module, since code execution uses a dict for globals. > > Supporting it only for built-in modules seems too big an exception. I came up with the idea in order to replace the setters and getters of builtin modules such as the sys module. I deliberately excluded Python modules from the idea. It's going to be too tricky to expose the API to Python.

Then I propose to drop the idea.

-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)



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