On 15 November 2017 at 06:34, Neil Schemenauer <nas-python-id...@arctrix.com > wrote:
> So, what is the purpose of all this trouble? > > - I believe quite a lot of Python internals can be simpler. For > example, importlib is complicated by the fact that a dict is > passed around when most of the logic would prefer to have the > module. Grubbing in sys.modules to lookup the module object is > ugly. The expression "exec(code, module)" is elegant to me. > I like the idea in principle, but highlighting a particular backwards compatibility pain point: one of the complications in importlib is that we promise to keep the "sys.modules[__name__] = some_other_object" idiom working. That means the need to do that check exists regardless of whether importlib is passing the module itself around, or the module's dict. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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