On Sep 26, 2014, at 12:12, Nathaniel Smith <njs@pobox.com> wrote:

On 26 Sep 2014 19:15, "Nathaniel Smith" <njs@pobox.com> wrote:
> The proposal is that before exec'ing __init__.py, we check for the existence of a __preinit__.py,

Silly me, obviously the right and proper name for this file would be __new__.py.

I had an email written just to say "this sounds brilliant, but why isn't it called __new__", with three paragraphs explaining why it was a good analogy... Now I guess I can delete draft. :)

Anyway, I definitely like this better than re-classing modules in mid-initialization, and better than my magic comment hack (and looking at the code again, of course you're right that my magic comment hack was necessary with anything like my approach, I guess I just forgot in the intervening time).