Sigh. This is getting exasperating. There's other code that might want to change this besides 3rd party library code. E.g. app configuration code.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Ralf Schmitt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ralf@systemexit.de" target="_blank">ralf@systemexit.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">Guido van Rossum <<a href="mailto:guido@python.org">guido@python.org</a>> writes:<br>
<br>
</div><div class="im">> Yeah, so the answer to all this is that 3rd party libraries know better<br>
> than to mess with global settings.<br>
<br>
</div>Right. But why make it configurable at runtime then? If you're changing<br>
the value, then you're the one probably breaking third party code.<br>
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