[Python-Dev] Pep 550 module

Yury Selivanov yselivanov.ml at gmail.com
Tue Aug 29 09:14:53 EDT 2017


On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 6:53 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28 August 2017 at 01:51, Jim J. Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think there is general consensus that this should go in a module other
>> than sys. (At least a submodule.)
>>
>> The specific names are still To Be Determined, but I suspect seeing the
>> functions and objects as part of a named module will affect what works.
>
> Given the refocusing of the PEP on the context variable API, with the
> other aspects introduced solely in service of making context variables
> work as defined, my current suggestion would be to make it a hybrid
> Python/C API using the "contextvars" + "_contextvars" naming
> convention.
>
> Then all most end user applications defining context variables would
> need is the single line:
>
>     from contextvars import new_context_var

I like it!

+1 from me.

Yury


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