[Python-ideas] New PEP 550: Execution Context

[Yury Selivanov]

[replying to list]

On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 10:56 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13 August 2017 at 11:27, Yury Selivanov <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes, I considered this idea myself, but ultimately rejected it because:
>>
>> 1. Current solution makes it easy to introspect things. Get the
>> current EC and print it out.  Although the context item idea could be
>> extended to `sys.create_context_item('description')` to allow that.
>
> I think the TLS/TSS precedent means we should seriously consider the
> ContextItem + ContextStateToken approach for the core low level API.

I actually like the idea and am fully open to it. I'm also curious if
it's possible to adapt the flat-array/fast access ideas that Nathaniel
mentioned.

Yury