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Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Sep 13 00:30:54 EDT 2017 
I find this a disturbing trend. I think we have bigger fish to fry and this
sounds like it could slow down startup.

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 8:35 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 13 September 2017 at 09:46, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > The sys module is a rather special case as far as modules go.  It is
> > effectively a "console" into the interpreter's internal state and that
> > includes some mutable state.  Since it is a module, we don't have much
> > of an opportunity to:
> >
> > * validate values assigned to its attributes [1]
> > * issue DeprecationWarning for deprecated attrs [2]
> > * alias attrs [2]
> > * replace get (and get/set) functions with properties
> > * re-organize sys [3]
>
> +1 from me, specifically because there are edge cases we don't
> generally test (e.g. folks rebinding sys.modules to nonsense), and it
> would be nice to be able to upgrade those from "don't do that" to "the
> obvious way of doing that just plain isn't allowed".
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
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