[stdlib-sig] pypy_vm (was: Proposal: new "interpreter" module)

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2008-04-08 20:06, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Le mardi 08 avril 2008 à 13:42 -0400, Jim Jewett a écrit :
>> If important information is in the interpreter-specific location, it
>> would be nice to know where that is.  That could be a specific module
>> name, but a module-name-pattern might be enough.
>>
>>     sys.interpreter=cpython (or pypy_js_43, or whatever is chosen)
>>   <==>
>>     cpython_vm (or pypy_js_43_vm) is the module for internals
> 
> Then why not:
> sys.interpreter_module = cpython
> 	<=>  cpython
> ?sys.interpreter_module = pypy_vm
> 	<=>  pypy_vm
> ?sys.interpreter_module = org.baked.beans.jython
> 	<=>  ?org.?baked.beans.jython :)
> 
> ie. those targets which choose to use a "_vm" suffix make it explicit
> rather than imposing that naming upon everyone ?

We already have a way to identify the Python implementation and
it works for CPython, IronPython and Jython:

 >>> import platform
 >>> platform.python_implementation()
'CPython'

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