Message 249934 - Python tracker

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Author	Mark.Shannon
Recipients	Guido.van.Rossum, Mark.Shannon, benjamin.peterson, eltoder, gvanrossum, larry, lemburg, ncoghlan, njs, pitrou, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, vstinner
Date	2015-09-05.21:52:19
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Message-id	<1441489940.15.0.729184973479.issue24912@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Well, there are important reasons why not to make the __class__ attribute of modules mutable. First of all, there is no valid rationale. How do know for sure that modifying the class of the sys or builtins module is not going to cause much the same problems the changing the class of ints did?

Well, there are important reasons why not to make  the __class__ attribute of modules mutable. 

First of all, there is no valid rationale.

How do know for sure that modifying the class of the sys or builtins module is not going to cause much the same problems the changing the class of ints did?

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2015-09-05 21:52:20	Mark.Shannon	set	recipients: + Mark.Shannon, lemburg, gvanrossum, rhettinger, ncoghlan, pitrou, vstinner, larry, benjamin.peterson, njs, eltoder, serhiy.storchaka, Guido.van.Rossum
2015-09-05 21:52:20	Mark.Shannon	set	messageid: <1441489940.15.0.729184973479.issue24912@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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