Terry J. Reedy added the comment: > Having "import this" behave differently from any other import is > counter-intuitive
I agree. My proposal (by design) does not change the property of executing only when first imported. I merely proposed that the text either start as cleartext or that the decrypted text be saved as a module attribute. *This* would make 'this' *more* like normal modules. Having side-effect code executed on import, as opposed to when running as main, is unusual. (Idlelib.idle is another intentional example, and one which currently has the same problem.) But I agree that this unusual behavior should remain for both. Having module code that is intentionally obfuscated and as about as inefficient as possible without being totally ridiculous is, I hope, unique, and not at all like other modules. Even if Tim wants to keep the literal encrypted, and the rot13 codec is not available in Py3 (?), the decoding would, I believe, be much more efficient using str.translate. Or the text could be encoded and decoded with one of the pairs in the binascii or base64 modules. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19499> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
