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

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Benjamin Peterson
> <musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 1. Data and functions that are available in all Python implementations
> and
> > deal
> >    with the general running of a Python VM.
> >
> >    - argv
> >    - byteorder
> >    - builtin_module_names, path, and modules
>
> I still think builtin_module_names should be moved. There is no
> guarantee other VMs have a concept of a built-in module.

Done.

>
>
> >     - copyright, hexversion, version, and version_info
> >    - displayhook, __displayhook__
> >    - excepthook, __excepthook__, exc_info, and exc_clear
> >    - exec_prefix and prefix
> >    - executable
> >    - exit
> >    - flags, py3kwarning, dont_write_bytecode, and warn_options
> >     - getfilesystemencoding
> >    - get/setprofile
> >    - get/settrace
> >    - getwindowsversion
>
> It seems silly to have Windows-specific stuff like this in the sys
> module, but I don't know where else they should go.

Indeed, it does. platform is the only one I can think of.

>
>
> >    - maxint and maxunicode
> >    - platform
> >    - ps1 and ps2
> >    - stdin, stderr, stdout, __stdin__, __stderr__, __stdout__
> >     - tracebacklimit
> >
> >
> > 2. Data and functions that affect the CPython interpreter.
> >
> >    - get/setrecursionlimit
> >    - get/setcheckinterval
> >    - _getframe and _current_frame
> >    - getrefcount
> >    - get/setdlopenflags
> >     - settscdumps
> >    - api_version
> >    - winver
> >    - dllhandle
> >    - float_info
> >    - _compact_freelists
> >    - _clear_type_cache
> >    - subversion
>
> There is some stuff missing from these lists, e.g., meta_path,
> path_importer_cache, path_hooks, call_tracing, etc. You should do a
> dir() in sys and fill in the missing attributes into the list.

I will do that. I was looking at the 2.6 docs.

>
>
> It's looking good, though!
>
> -Brett
>



-- 
Cheers,
Benjamin Peterson
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