On 12/29/2010 03:52 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
Disclaimer: this is a currently half-baked idea that needs some discussion here if it is going to turn into something a bit more coherent :)
Sometimes half baked is good as it gets at the concept, rather than being bogged down with the details. ;-)
On and off, I've been pondering the problem of the way implementation details (like the real file structures of the multiprocessing and unittest packages, or whether or not an interpreter use the pure Python or the C accelerated version of various modules) leak out into the world via the __module__ attribute on various components. This mostly comes up when discussing pickle compatibility between 2.x and 3.x, but in can show up in various guises whenever you start relying on dynamic introspection.
This sounds like two different separate issues to me.
One is the leaking-out of lower level details.
The other is abstracting a framework with the minimal amount of details needed.
Ron