[Python-3000] [Python-ideas] Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!

[Ron Adam]

skip at pobox.com wrote:
>     >> It won't work in this case.  Compilation of the module might well
>     >> fail because of Python2/Python3 syntax differences.
> 
>     Leif> Well, then this isn't something to be implemented for python 2,
>     Leif> it's something to consider for python 3 and greater.  
> 
> It won't work there either.  It's quite possible that a module written for
> Python 2 won't compile under Python 3.  Compilation is currently the only
> route to execution.  You'd have to come up with some other scheme.  Someone
> suggested something akin to a "from __future__" facility or the #! trick you
> and others mentioned, but that would only work for Python 2.6 and above.
> 
> Skip

The tokenizer.c file has the routines to detect encoding specifiers before 
the file is compiled.  So it could be done there right after the file 
encoding is detected.

Ron