[issue34386] Expose a dictionary of interned strings in sys module

[Ronald Oussoren]

Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> added the comment:

IMHO we shouldn't expose the intern dictionary without there being a clear, and good enough, use case for doing so.  

Exposing the dictionary decreases implementation flexibility, and increases requirements on other implementations.  One example of the former: at least in theory the interning dictionary could be a set, but we couldn't make that change if the dictionary were exposed in the API.

With current information I'm -1 on exposing the dictionary, and -0 on doing that for debug builds only.

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