[Types-sig] type declaration syntax

skaller skaller@maxtal.com.au
Fri, 31 Dec 1999 03:38:12 +1100


Skip Montanaro wrote:
> 
>     skaller> I.e. TWO bans fix most problems. The ban on module level
>     skaller> rebindings is a significant restriction.
> 
> I'll say.  The common idiom for trapping stdout or stderr is to rebind
> sys.stdout/stderr to a file-like object.  How would that be accomplished in
> such a straightforward way if module-level rebindings are disallowed?

	Special case the sys module.
A bit messy -- but so is the sys module :-)

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