[Python-Dev] Module properties for C modules

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Thu May 1 23:00:35 CEST 2008


Guido van Rossum schrieb:
> I don't see how it could work if any Python code is executed in the
> module, since code execution uses a dict for globals.
> 
> Supporting it only for built-in modules seems too big an exception.

I came up with the idea in order to replace the setters and getters of
builtin modules such as the sys module. I deliberately excluded Python
modules from the idea. It's going to be too tricky to expose the API to
Python.

Christian


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