[Python-Dev] how important is setting co_filename for a module being imported to what file is set to? (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Mon Aug 31 18:27:49 CEST 2009


On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 08:10, Antoine Pitrou<solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

Benjamin Peterson <benjamin python.org> writes:

> Why can't we simply make cofilename a writable attribute instead of inventing > some complicated API? Because code objects are supposed to be a immutable hashable object? Right, but cofilename is used neither in tphash nor in tprichcompare.

I didn't suggest this since I assumed co_filename was made read-only for a reason back when the design decision was made. But if the original safety concerns are not there then I am happy to simply change the attribute to writable.

-Brett



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