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Tue Jan 29 00:30:29 CET 2013 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-January/123752.html

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.
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