[Python-Dev] sys.implementation (original) (raw)

Eric Snow ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com
Sat May 12 04:40:46 CEST 2012

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:57 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

sys.implementation.metadata looks like a completely over-engineered concept. Please, let's just make sys.implementation a dict and stop bothering about ordering and iterability.

I'm fine with ditching "metadata". The PEP will say sys.implementation must have the required attributes and leave it at that. However, my preference is still for dotted access rather than a dict. The type doesn't really matter to me otherwise. Immutability isn't a big concern nor is sequence-ness. I'll tone the type discussion accordingly.

If anyone has strong feelings for item-access over attribute-access, please elaborate. I'm just not seeing it as that important and would rather finish up the PEP as simply as possible.

-eric

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