On 01/05/2011 07:52 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:45 AM, Michael Foord
wrote: On 5 January 2011 15:57, Nick Coghlan
wrote: The two examples I looked at (functools and datetime) favoured hiding the implementation details at the cost of causing introspection problems. Despite my comments in the opening post of the thread, I think that is the better trade-off to make.
Both of those are because of underlying C implementations where introspection problems would be the default anyway, which isn't quite the same for situation for unittest.
True, but it means the precedent of using __module__ to refer to the official location rather than than the actual location has already been set. That suggests to me our best way forward is to bless that as a recommended practice, then find a way to deal with the negative impact it currently has on introspection (such as a "__real_module__" attribute, as I suggested in another post).
You could add a private dictionary to sys, that is updated along with sys.modules, which maps module names to real names. And have a function in inspect to retrieve the real name for an object. That sounds like it would do pretty much what you need and doesn't add a top level builtin or global, or change "if __name__ == '__main__': main()". Cheers, Ron