[Python-Dev] Proto-PEP for maintaining backward compatibility

[Thomas Heller]

> Can you elaborate?  Can't you include the last version of
> modulefinder.py that supports 1.5.2 in your py2exe distro?  Or run
> py2exe with a 1.5.2 python?  It seems to me that modulefinder.py
> depends on the dis.py module of the current Python -- how can you use
> a modulefinder.py from Python 2.x for a Python 1.5.2 program?
> 
First, I want to use a version-independend modulefinder in py2exe,
if possible.
Second, it seems to work from 1.5.2 up to 2.2, currently. Except
for a single use of a string method someone overlooked probably,
see http://www.python.org/sf/564840.

modulefinder simply uses some opnames from dis, and all seem to be
present already in 1.5.2.

Thomas