[Python-ideas] Modules as global namespaces rather than dicts

[Koos Zevenhoven]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 8:44 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I like the idea in principle, but highlighting a particular backwards
> compatibility pain point: one of the complications in importlib is that we
> promise to keep the "sys.modules[__name__] = some_other_object" idiom
> working. That means the need to do that check exists regardless of whether
> importlib is passing the module itself around, or the module's dict.
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>
>
Another point, perhaps more difficult to address: Would for instance
globals() then return a module instead of a dict/mapping?​

​––Koos​



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