Anti-poking lobby (was:Re: [Types-sig] type declaration syntax)

[skaller]

John Machin wrote:

> Once we have banned poking from outside a module, can't we fix the
> presumably-few cases of missing-but-required functionality by supplying
> functions? For example,
> 
> previous_stdout = sys.divert_stdout(new_stdout_file-like_object)

	Of course, but the issue is compatibility with 
existing code.

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