[Import-SIG] PEP 451: Big update.

[Eric Snow]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, I preferred the "prepare_module" name when I thought the extension
> loader returned the cached module object directly. It doesn't, it returns a
> copy, so "create_module" is fine.
>
Cool.

> Also agreed on deferring reload behavioural improvements to a separate PEP.
>
Sounds good.

> As noted in my other email, I think an advisory "this isn't going to work"
> API is a better idea now, since even pure Python modules don't always
> support reloading.
>
 What do you mean by "advisory" API?

> And +1 to "loader_state" as the helper attribute name.
>
That's settled then!  Thanks for the feedback.

-eric
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