Redirecting discussion from python-checkins to python-dev.
'new' has now been deprecated for 3.0, GvR suggested it would be nice to
get rid of 'types' as well.
Christian Heimes wrote:
> Georg Brandl wrote:
>> I've just looked, and the types you can't get trivially via builtin or
>> type(singleton) are
>>
>> * module
>> * function
>> * generator
>> * code
>> * method
>> * builtin-function-or-method
>> * frame
>> * traceback
>> * dictproxy
>> * getset- and member-descriptor
>>
>> Where would one put them?
>
> Python 3.0 has several more types that aren't exposed through types. For
> example the views like dict_keys, dict_values and dict_items are not in
> types.
Most of those 'hard-to-get-at' types are tied pretty tightly to the
interpreter internals, and would fit in with Guido's suggestion of a
'pyvm' module. Such a module would let us clean up the 'sys' namespace a
little bit by moving some of the more arcane hackery to another module
(like the recursion limit and the threading check interval).
The only ones I would suggest putting elsewhere are the module type
(exposing it through the imp module instead), and the new
dict_keys/_values/_items types (exposing them through the collections
module, as others have suggested).
Cheers,
Nick.
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