[Python-Dev] peps: Add Alexandre's suggestions (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Aug 16 13:23:44 CEST 2011

On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:15:51 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Oops, I admit I hadn't read PEP 395. > PEP 395 focuses on module aliasing, while the suggestion above focuses > on the path of objects in modules. How can we reconcile the two? Do we > want qualname to be a relative "path" inside the module? > (but then qualname cannot specify its own module name).

I was more thinking that if pickle grew the ability to handle two different names for objects, then PEP 395 could run off the same feature without having to mess with sys.modules.

But what happens if a module contains, say, a nested class with a qualname (assigned by the interpreter) of "module_name.A.B", and the module later gets a qualname (assigned by the user) of "module_alias"?

Regards

Antoine.

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