[stdlib-sig] Proposal: new "interpreter" module

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Steven Bethard <steven.bethard at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Benjamin Peterson
> <musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  PEP: XXX
> > Title: The interpreter module
> > Version: $Revision$
> > Last-Modified: $Date$
> > Author: Benjamin Peterson
> > Status: Draft
> > Type: Standards Track
> > Content-Type: text/x-rst
> > Created: 4-April-2008
> > Python-Version: 3.0
> >
> >
> > Abstract
> > ========
> >
> > This PEP proposes a new low-level module for CPython-specific
> interpreter
> > functions in order to clean out the sys module and separate general
> Python
> > functionality from implementation details.
> >
> >
> > Rationale
> > =========
> >
> > The sys module currently contains functions and data that can be put
> into
> > two
> > major groups:
> >
> > 1. Data and functions that are available in all Python implementations
> and
> > deal
> >     with the general running of a Python VM.
> >
> >    - display_hook, stdout, stdin, and stderr
> >    - flags and warn_options
> >    - settrace, and setprofile
> >    - traceback, excepthook
> >    - etc...
> >
> >
> > 2. Data and function that affect the CPython interpreter.
> >
> >    - get/setrecursionlimit
> >    - get/setcheckinterval
> >    - _getframe and _current_frame
> >    - getrefcount
> >    - getdlopenflags
>
> Why getdlopenflags? That seems general to any Python implementation
> that opens dlls (though I believe the dl module is going away in
> Python 3, so it may not matter).

I don't think any other implementations do open dynamic libs. Those flags
don't affect the dl module; they define how Python opens C shared libs.

>
>
> Also, maybe settscdump should be moved as well? Its description says
> to look at "Python/ceval.c"
>
Yes.

>
>
> Otherwise, it looks pretty good to me.
>
> Steve
> --
> I'm not *in*-sane. Indeed, I am so far *out* of sane that you appear a
> tiny blip on the distant coast of sanity.
>  --- Bucky Katt, Get Fuzzy
>



-- 
Cheers,
Benjamin Peterson
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