[pypy-dev] access to pypy version info, internals

[Armin Rigo]

Hi Holger,

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:38:47AM +0200, holger krekel wrote:
> What about rather doing a single clean 'sys.pypy' module namespace such 
> that we can do: 
> 
>     a) hasattr(sys, 'pypy')
>     b) sys.pypy.version_info >= (x,y)
>     c) expose the __pypy__ builtin module as sys.pypy?  
> 
> Semantically, the sys module already presents an interaction 
> API with the interpreter.  Doing a single namespace looks more
> elegant to me than of cluttering sys with an artifical 'pypy_*' 
> prefixed namespace and having to (try-except)import __pypy__. 

You don't have to put the "import __pypy__" in a try-except, if you
already checked that "__pypy__" in sys.builtin_module_names.  But your
solution looks clean, and the point a) becomes shorter too :-)

I would like to avoid having the semi-internal interface of PyPy change
nearly as much as, say, the one from the py lib one (and I'm not
exagerating there: there are *6* different versions of "try: from
py.internal.stuff import x" in my own conftest.py :-) .  That said, your
suggestion seems nice enough.  Comments from others?


A bientot,

Armin.