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pje at telecommunity

May 22, 2012, 10:47 AM


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Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale [In reply to]
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Eric V. Smith <eric [at] trueblade> wrote:

> Any reason to make this the string "sys" or "foo", and not the module
> itself? Can the module be replaced in sys.modules? Mostly I'm just curious.
>

Probably not, but it occurred to me that storing references to modules
introduces a reference cycle that wasn't there when we were pointing to
parent path objects instead. It basically would make child packages point
to their parents, as well as the other way around.

Subject User Time
PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale guido at python May 20, 2012, 6:33 PM
    Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale eric at trueblade May 21, 2012, 1:00 AM
        Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale guido at python May 21, 2012, 6:55 AM
    Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale pje at telecommunity May 21, 2012, 11:08 AM
    Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale ncoghlan at gmail May 21, 2012, 4:25 PM
    Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale ncoghlan at gmail May 21, 2012, 4:32 PM
    Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale eric at trueblade May 21, 2012, 5:32 PM
        Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale pje at telecommunity May 22, 2012, 10:47 AM
    Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale eric at trueblade May 22, 2012, 7:51 AM
        Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale ncoghlan at gmail May 22, 2012, 8:39 AM
    Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale ncoghlan at gmail May 22, 2012, 8:41 AM
    Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale eric at trueblade May 22, 2012, 9:31 AM
        Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale pje at telecommunity May 22, 2012, 1:43 PM
    Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale guido at python May 22, 2012, 11:37 AM
    Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale barry at python May 22, 2012, 3:05 PM
    Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale eric at trueblade May 22, 2012, 5:40 PM
        Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale pje at telecommunity May 22, 2012, 6:49 PM
        Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale ncoghlan at gmail May 22, 2012, 6:58 PM
    Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale pje at telecommunity May 22, 2012, 8:58 PM
    Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale ncoghlan at gmail May 22, 2012, 9:27 PM
    Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale eric at trueblade May 23, 2012, 5:31 AM
        Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale ncoghlan at gmail May 23, 2012, 6:02 AM
    Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale eric at trueblade May 23, 2012, 6:10 AM
        Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale brett at python May 23, 2012, 12:02 PM
    Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale pje at telecommunity May 23, 2012, 8:13 AM
    Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale pje at telecommunity May 23, 2012, 12:35 PM
    Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale brett at python May 23, 2012, 12:56 PM
    Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale eric at trueblade May 23, 2012, 2:29 PM
        Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale eric at trueblade May 23, 2012, 5:24 PM
            Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale pje at telecommunity May 23, 2012, 5:58 PM
    Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale eric at trueblade May 23, 2012, 6:02 PM
        Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale pje at telecommunity May 23, 2012, 7:58 PM
        Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale ncoghlan at gmail May 23, 2012, 8:49 PM
    Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale guido at python May 24, 2012, 11:33 AM
    Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale eric at trueblade May 24, 2012, 11:42 AM
    Re: PEP 420 - dynamic path computation is missing rationale ericsnowcurrently at gmail May 24, 2012, 1:11 PM

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