[Python-Dev] PEP about sys.implementation and implementation specific user site directory (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Sat Oct 10 17:11:52 CEST 2009

2009/10/10 Willem Broekema <metawilm at gmail.com>:

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 1:29 AM, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:

I'm proposing two new attributes in the sys module: sys.implementation and sys.userdirsuffix. This seems like a good idea. I'm not sure this idea will easily be accepted, but I'd like to see the sys module eventually split up in two parts, so it is very obvious to both implementers and users which system-specific features are portable and which are not:

I'm afraid this has already been proposed and rejected. See http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3139/.

-- Regards, Benjamin

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