[Python-Dev] PEP 451 update (original) (raw)

Eric Snow ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com
Fri Oct 25 17:44:48 CEST 2013

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

After reading Eric's doc patch, I realized there is one change I want to make to the current semantics and that's not to backfill package when set to None. Since import is now going to take over the job of setting package (along with other attributes), this seems like a slight waste of effort. It also kills (or at least complicates) having a loader which does lazy loading since reading the attribute to see if it is None would trigger the load before leaving the import code, thus killing any postponed loading.

Fine with me. I may have time today to make the outstanding updates to the PEP.

-eric

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