[Python-Dev] PEP 3147 ready for pronouncement and merging

[Guido van Rossum]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> I am attaching the latest revision of PEP 3147 to this message, which is also
> available here:
>
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3147/
>
> I think the PEP is ready for pronouncement, and the patch is pretty much ready
> for merging into py3k.  The only thing that I can think of that is not
> implemented yet is this section on PEP 302 loaders:
>
>    PEP 302 [18]_ defined loaders have a `.get_filename()` method which
>    points to the `__file__` for a module.  As part of this PEP, we will
>    extend this API, to include a new method `.get_paths()` which will
>    return a 2-tuple containing the path to the source file and the path
>    to where the matching `pyc` file is (or would be).
>
> I'm honestly not sure whether this is still essential, or whether the
> importlib ABC changes Brett and I talked about at Pycon are still required.  I
> now believe they are at best a minor part of the implementation if so.  Maybe
> Brett can chime in on that.
>
> Everything else is implemented, tested, and has undergone four rounds of
> Rietveld reviews (thanks Antoine, Benjamin, Brett, and Georg!).  A fifth patch
> set has been uploaded and is available here:
>
> http://codereview.appspot.com/842043/show
>
> This addresses all previous comments, includes some fixes from Brian Curtin
> for Windows (thanks!) and fixes __main__ and -m support.  I'd like to commit
> this to py3k sooner rather than later so that we can shake out any additional
> issues that might crop up, without having to continue to maintain my external
> branches.
>
> Guido, what say you?

Give me a couple of days; but I don't expect any problems given how
the earlier discussion went. If you didn't hear from me by Friday go
ahead and merge.

> -Barry

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)