[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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