2009/10/9 Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de>: > Benjamin Peterson wrote: >>> sys.userdirsuffix >>> ----------------- >> >> Why not site.userdirsuffix? > > Because all implementations of Python like to use the same, unpatched > site module. The sys module is different for every implementation. It's > more convenient to have an attribute on the sys module that can be > filled by each implementation. I could also add a lookup table for all > known implementations to the site module. But what about unknown or new > implementations? They would have to wait until we add a new entry for > them. The sys.userdirsuffix is more flexible and future prove.
I think we should make a semi-private (public to the stdlib) module like _sys or _implementation part of the Python VM API. Then, instead of stuffing everything into sys, we can provide this information in modules where it belongs. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ 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
