[Python-Dev] sys.implementation

Thu May 10 17:31:49 CEST 2012

On 5/10/2012 10:42 AM, Georg Brandl wrote:
> On 10.05.2012 10:57, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>> On 2012年5月10日 11:33:14 +1000
>> Nick Coghlan<ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> The original concern (that sys.implementation may differ in length
>>> across implementations) has been eliminated by moving all
>>> implementation specific values into sys.implementation.metadata.
>>>> Uh. It's scary the kind of things people sometimes come up with :-)
>> .oO( Namespaception )
>>> sys.implementation.metadata looks like a completely over-engineered
>> concept. Please, let's just make sys.implementation a dict and stop
>> bothering about ordering and iterability.

Thank you for cutting through the knot.
> Agreed.

Ditto. Iterability is good and should be part of all python collections. 
People who want a sorted representation should just use sorted(d.items) 
as with other sortable mappings. Nick's idea of prefixing local 
implementation keys with '_' would nicely group them together on sorted 
displays.
-- 
Terry Jan Reedy