On 4 February 2012 11:25, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > It strikes me that it would be helpful sometimes to programmatically > recognise "preview" modules in the std lib. Could we have a recommendation > in PEP 8 that such modules should have a global variable called PREVIEW, and > non-preview modules should not, so that the recommended way of telling them > apart is with hasattr(module, "PREVIEW")?
In what situation would you want that when you weren't referring to a specific module? If you're referring to a specific module and you really care, just check sys.version. (That's annoying and ugly enough that it'd probably make you thing about why you are doing it - I cannot honestly think of a case where I'd actually want to check in code if a module is a preview - hence my question as to what your use case is). Feels like YAGNI to me. Paul. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com