[Python-Dev] Re: Cuddly constants seek loving, stable home

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Greg Stein writes:
 > +1
 > 
 > -0 on a new module. Just make sys.consts some kind of attributed object.

  Agreed.  pyexpat just creates new module objects and fills them in
for things like error codes.

 > +1 ... Good call. That would toss some of the synchronization problems with
 > those files today.

  Yep.  The existing modules could import * from those new objects so
that backward compatibility is retained.
  The advantage of the current approach, however, is that we don't end
up with a bunch of initialization code that ends up sticking around as
part of the process.  Not a real problem for Unix or Windows, but it
might be on embedded platforms like the Palm.


  -Fred

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