Sigh. This is getting exasperating. There's other code that might want to change this besides 3rd party library code. E.g. app configuration code. On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Ralf Schmitt <ralf at systemexit.de> wrote: > Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes: >> > Yeah, so the answer to all this is that 3rd party libraries know better > > than to mess with global settings. >> Right. But why make it configurable at runtime then? If you're changing > the value, then you're the one probably breaking third party code. > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20130128/16f1f4d3/attachment.html>