On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 10:38 AM Ivan Pozdeev via Python-Dev <python-dev@python.org> wrote:
I'm skeptical about anything that hides an object's "true nature": this is a major landmine in diagnostics because it lies to you about what you are looking at and where to look for its implementation.
E. g. in this case, AF_UNIX is a member of some entity called "AddressFamily" -- so I would search the code for "AddressFamily" to see what I'm looking at and what else I can do with it. The fact that it's also directly availabe from the `socket` module is incidental: it could be as easily made available from anywhere else -- not even a module.
But if it's described as socket.AF_UNIX then you know where to go looking for it, and type() can tell you the type if you actually need it. +1 for changing the socket enums; -1 for changing enums in general. ChrisA