[Python-ideas] re-organizing the sys module

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mar 13, 2014, at 02:04 PM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:

>Many sys attributes (argv, displayhook, excepthook, modules, path,
>path_hooks, path_importer_cache, ps1, ps2, stderr, stdin, stdout,
>tracebacklimit) are used implicit in builtins and in interpreter core. Even
>import system doesn't work without the sys module. So it should be
>initialized very early and finalized very late.

If the C API PySys_* functions were updated to use _sys instead, hopefully
most stuff in the core would still work, right?

-Barry
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