PEP 726 -- Module __setattr__ and __delattr__

[skirpichev]

Please consider PEP 726 -- Module __setattr__ and __delattr__
https://peps.python.org/pep-0726/

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[gpshead]

Thanks for the PEP and apologies on our end for the review & response delay:

The Python Steering Council has discussed PEP-726 – Module __setattr__ and __delattr__ and decided to Reject it.

We did not see clear consensus in the community about use cases such as read-only module attributes, and we are concerned that going further down the route of modules behaving semi-class-like may lead to future performance optimization challenges and confusing semantics. We do not find there to be a strong need for having read-only module attributes, and even if there is one, this is not the ideal solution to that problem. Preventing one possible mis-use of modules did not seem compelling enough.

There are already workarounds that people can use to achieve similar results. That some people consider those workarounds such as replacing a module with another object to be gross is not considered a problem as it is an uncommon need.

– The 2024 PSC