[Python-Dev] removing the new and types modules (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Nov 28 12:36:37 CET 2007

Redirecting discussion from python-checkins to python-dev.

'new' has now been deprecated for 3.0, GvR suggested it would be nice to get rid of 'types' as well.

Christian Heimes wrote:

Georg Brandl wrote:

I've just looked, and the types you can't get trivially via builtin or type(singleton) are

* module * function * generator * code * method * builtin-function-or-method * frame * traceback * dictproxy * getset- and member-descriptor Where would one put them? Python 3.0 has several more types that aren't exposed through types. For example the views like dictkeys, dictvalues and dictitems are not in types.

Most of those 'hard-to-get-at' types are tied pretty tightly to the interpreter internals, and would fit in with Guido's suggestion of a 'pyvm' module. Such a module would let us clean up the 'sys' namespace a little bit by moving some of the more arcane hackery to another module (like the recursion limit and the threading check interval).

The only ones I would suggest putting elsewhere are the module type (exposing it through the imp module instead), and the new dict_keys/_values/_items types (exposing them through the collections module, as others have suggested).

Cheers, Nick.

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