[Python-Dev] New _Py_InitializeFromConfig() function (PEP 432)

[Nick Coghlan]

On 4 August 2018 at 08:37, Victor Stinner <vstinner at redhat.com> wrote:
> It seems like the PEP 432 proposes an API designed from scratch as the
> target API. I started from the 28 years old C code and I tried to
> cleanup the code. Our method is different, so it's not surprising that
> the result is different :-)

No, you didn't start from the 28 year old C code - you started from
the private initial implementation of PEP 432, as per
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0432/#implementation-strategy (and
PEP 432 in turn was born from the Python 3.3 changes needed to
integrate importlib properly into the __main__ initialisation process)

Eric and I merged that [1], because it become apparent while I was
working on the core settings management framework that actually
migrating individual settings needed to happen in-tree, as the
alternative of continuing to maintain it out of tree would at best
result in an enormous unreviewable patch, and more likely never result
in a patch at all (as the churn rate on CPython was high enough to
cause regular conflicts even with the framework branch, let alone once
we started migrating individual settings).

The current private API doesn't meet some of the original design goals
of the PEP, but the time to reconcile that (and figure out whether
it's the API design or the implementation that should change) is while
we're updating and reviewing the PEP against the current
implementation - while everything remained private, it didn't make
sense to throw any additional roadblocks in the way of the excellent
work you were doing.

Cheers,
Nick.

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