[Python-Dev] Breaking undocumented API (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Nov 17 16:30:03 CET 2010

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 7:24 AM, James Y Knight <foom at fuhm.net> wrote:

On Nov 17, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

(and is a little trickier in the case of module level globals, since those can't be deprecated properly) People keep saying this, but there have already been examples shown of how to do it. I actually think that python should include a way to do so standard -- it's a reasonable enough desire, as shown by how many times in this thread the inability to do so has been mentioned. If the existing working 3rd-party mechanisms aren't good enough for python-dev standards, come up with a new way...

That's quite the distraction from the current thread though. Start discussing it on python-ideas, or submit a code fix, or something in between. But the hackish way that some 3rd party frameworks use (replacing the module object with a class instance in sys.modules) is clearly not right for the standard library (I'll explain on python-ideas if you insist).

-- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)

More information about the Python-Dev mailing list