Guido wrote: > I should add that this policy is also forced somewhat by the existence > of the "multiple interpreters in one address space" feature, which is > used e.g. by mod_python. This feature attempts to provide isolation > between interpreters to the point that each one can have a completely > different set of modules loaded and can be working on a totally > different application. The implementation of CPython shares built-in > types between multiple interpreters (and it wouldn't be easy to change > this); if you were able to modify a built-in type from one > interpreter, all other interpreters would see that same modification.
IronPython is in the exact same boat here - we share built-in types Across multiple Python engines as well. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
