2009/10/9 Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de>: > Benjamin Peterson wrote: >> 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. > > > That's an interesting counter proposal. Your idea requires an additional > import that I try to avoid. Looking at memory and performance, an > additional module that is imported anyway isn't better. In my humble > opinion the implementation information belongs into the sys module > anyway. A new module just for the user site suffix seems unnecessary.
But we want to hide that this is an implementation detail from the user. Having a new module just for this attribute might seem like overkill, but I hope that we could use it for more things in the future. Besides, if _sys is a builtin module, importing it will not add much overhead. I forgot to ask before: Does this deprecate platform.python_implementation()? -- 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
