[Python-Dev] advice needed: best approach to enabling "metamodules"?

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Are these really all our options? All of them sound like hacks, none of 
> them sound like anything the language (or even the CPython 
> implementation) should sanction.

If assignment to the __class__ of a module were permitted
(by whatever means) then you could put this in a module:

    class __class__(types.ModuleType):
       ...

which makes it look almost like a deliberate language
feature. :-)

Seriously, of the options presented, I think that allowing
__class__ assignment is the most elegant, since it solves
a lot of problems in one go without introducing any new
features -- just removing a restriction that prevents an
existing language mechanism from working in this case.

-- 
Greg