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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst index d6d0861..3574b53 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst @@ -159,6 +159,24 @@ effort will be made to add such support. PEP written by Erik M. Bray; implementation by Masayuki Yamamoto. +PEP 562: Customization of access to module attributes +----------------------------------------------------- + +It is sometimes convenient to customize or otherwise have control over access +to module attributes. A typical example is managing deprecation warnings. +Typical workarounds are assigning ``__class__`` of a module object to +a custom subclass of :class:`types.ModuleType` or replacing the ``sys.modules`` +item with a custom wrapper instance. This procedure is now simplified by +recognizing ``__getattr__`` defined directly in a module that would act like +a normal ``__getattr__`` method, except that it will be defined on module +*instances*. + +.. seealso:: + + :pep:`562` -- Module ``__getattr__`` and ``__dir__`` + PEP written and implemented by Ivan Levkivskyi + + PEP 564: Add new time functions with nanosecond resolution ---------------------------------------------------------- |