On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 02:32:16PM +0000, Paul Moore wrote: > Also, and possibly more of an issue, use of the ".missing.py" file > will mean that a user can't provide their own implementation of the > module later on sys.path. I don'rt know if this is a significant issue > on Unix platforms. On Windows, there is a 3rd party implementation of > the curses module which (as I understand it) can be user installed. If > Python included a curses.missing.py, that would no longer work. > > Certainly these are only minor points, but worth considering.
I don't think that's a minor point, I think its a very important one. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/