Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/943619/

A recent discussion on the Python forum looked at a way to
protect module objects (and users) from mistaken attribute assignment and
deletion.
There are ways
to get the same effect today, but the mechanism that would be used causes a
performance penalty for an unrelated, and heavily used, action: attribute
lookup on modules. Back in 2017, PEP 562 (“Module __getattr__
and __dir__”) set the stage for adding magic methods to module objects; now
a new proposal would extend that idea to add __setattr__() and
__delattr__() to them.