+1 On Feb 4, 2012 8:37 PM, "Paul Moore" <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 4 February 2012 11:25, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > It strikes me that it would be helpful sometimes to programmatically > > recognise "preview" modules in the std lib. Could we have a recommendation > > in PEP 8 that such modules should have a global variable called PREVIEW, and > > non-preview modules should not, so that the recommended way of telling them > > apart is with hasattr(module, "PREVIEW")? > > In what situation would you want that when you weren't referring to a > specific module? If you're referring to a specific module and you > really care, just check sys.version. (That's annoying and ugly enough > that it'd probably make you thing about why you are doing it - I > cannot honestly think of a case where I'd actually want to check in > code if a module is a preview - hence my question as to what your use > case is). > > Feels like YAGNI to me. > Paul. > _______________________________________________ > 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/anacrolix%40gmail.com
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