[Python-3000] PEP: Cleaning out sys and the "interpreter" module

[Guido van Rossum]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:
> > That's not the Python spirit. The spirit is that *if* they support
>  > similar enough functionality the APIs should be named the same, in the
>  > same module, and have the same signature. E.g. the os module is built
>  > on this principle. Many APIs there are optional, but if they exist,
>  > they have a known name and spec. (The posix/nt underlying modules are
>  > implementation details that most users never need to know about.)
>
>  Does that mean I can fix the signature issues with socket.gethostname()?
>
>  http://bugs.python.org/issue1049

I think in that case the spec includes the possibility of raising an
exception, but not the possibility of returning None, so, no.

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