[Python-Dev] a new type for sys.implementation

Eric Snow ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com
Fri Jun 1 18:11:31 CEST 2012


On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:07 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> There may be other CPython-specific fields currently in sys.version
> that it makes sense to also include in sys.implementation, but:
> 1. That's *as well as*, not *instead of*
> 2. It's something that can be looked at *after* the initial
> implementation of the PEP has been checked in (and should only be done
> with a concrete use case, such as eliminating sys.version
> introspection in other parts of the stdlib or in third party code)

Precisely.  The PEP addresses this point directly:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0421/#adding-new-required-attributes

-eric


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