[Python-ideas] a standard approach to module-replace-itself-in-sys.modules

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mar 13, 2014, at 08:54 AM, Brett Cannon wrote:

>Do we actually want to promote this practice by codifying support for it in
>the stdlib? If you're doing this to get decorators for module attributes
>then you should say this is for that goal and the solution is getting the
>module swapping hack to be easier to use (and might call for a better
>solution). Otherwise this proposal feels like it's trying to codify
>behaviour that is rarely necessary.

I don't think it necessarily has to be promoted as something we want people to
generally do, but if they're going to do it I do think it would be nice to
have a bless (i.e. stdlib) way.

-Barry
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