Message 249483 - Python tracker

Message249483

Author	eltoder
Recipients	Guido.van.Rossum, Mark.Shannon, benjamin.peterson, eltoder, larry, lemburg, njs, pitrou, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka
Date	2015-09-01.14:38:29
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Message-id	<1441118309.95.0.0538891954305.issue24912@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Nathaniel, what if we allow creating module objects from an existing dict instead of always creating a new one. Does this solve your namespace diversion problem? FWIW, when I discovered this change I was quite surprised this came through without a PEP. I agree that the old rules were somewhat arbitrary, but this is a significant change with non-trivial compatibility concerns.

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Nathaniel, what if we allow creating module objects from an existing dict instead of always creating a new one. Does this solve your namespace diversion problem?

FWIW, when I discovered this change I was quite surprised this came through without a PEP. I agree that the old rules were somewhat arbitrary, but this is a significant change with non-trivial compatibility concerns.

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