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
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