On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
> This seems like a pretty clear case of "practicality beats purity".  Not only 
> has nobody complained about deprecatedModuleAttribute, but there are tons of 
> things which show up in sys.modules that aren't modules in the sense of 
> 'instances of ModuleType'.  The Twisted reactor, for example, is an instance, 
> and we've been doing *that* for about 10 years with no complaints.

But the Twisted universe is only a subset of the Python universe. The
Python stdlib needs to move more carefully.

-- 
--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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