[Patches] [ python-Patches-495688 ] Make site.py more friendly to PDAs

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Patches item #495688, was opened at 2001-12-21 01:37
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Category: Library (Lib)
Group: Python 2.3
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Rejected
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Phil Thompson (philthompson)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Make site.py more friendly to PDAs

Initial Comment:
site.py requires distutils and pydoc which are both
unfriendly to devices with little memory like PDAs.

This patch makes site.py cope with distutils and pydoc
not being installed.

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>Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2002-08-12 11:08

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I like the pydoc half less: the problem only happens if you
actually invoke help, and invoking it without this patch
produces an exception that should give a clear indication of
what the problem is.

So I reject the entire patch; if you want formal support for
a subsetted Python, you should probably write a
Python-for-PDA PEP which defines the subset clearly.

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Comment By: Michael Hudson (mwh)
Date: 2002-01-17 19:01

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Hmm.  Semi-approve of the pydoc change.  The distutils
change seems pointless though -- you're not likely to build
Python on a PDA anytime soon, are you?  Or are folders call
Modules/ very common on PDAs?

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