[Python-Dev] Module properties for C modules

[Guido van Rossum]

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum schrieb:
>
> > I don't see how it could work if any Python code is executed in the
>  > module, since code execution uses a dict for globals.
>  >
>  > Supporting it only for built-in modules seems too big an exception.
>
>  I came up with the idea in order to replace the setters and getters of
>  builtin modules such as the sys module. I deliberately excluded Python
>  modules from the idea. It's going to be too tricky to expose the API to
>  Python.

Then I propose to drop the idea.

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