[Python-Dev] please back out changeset f903cf864191 before alpha-2

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 23:45:55 -0400
Scott Dial <scott+python-dev at scottdial.com> wrote:
> On 8/26/2013 8:51 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> > Le Mon, 26 Aug 2013 08:24:58 -0400,
> > Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> a écrit :
> >> On 08/26/2013 04:36 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> >>> event-driven processing using network libraries
> >>
> >> Maybe I missed something:  why should considerations from that topic
> >> influence the design of an API for XML processing?
> > 
> > Because this API is mostly useful when the data is received (*) at a
> > slow enough speed - which usually means from the network, not from a
> > hard drive.
> ...
> > The whole *point* of adding IncrementalParser was to parse incoming
> > XML data in a way that is friendly with event-driven network
> > programming, other use cases being *already* covered by existing
> > APIs. This is why it's far from nonsensical to re-use an existing
> > terminology from that world.
> 
> Since when is Tulip the OOWTDI? If this was Twisted, it would be "write"
> and "finish"[1]. Tulip's Protocol ABC isn't even a good match for the
> application. There is reason that Twisted has a separate
> Consumer/Producer interface from the network I/O interface.
> I'm sure
> there is other existing practice in this specific area too (e.g.,
> XMLParser).

I'm really not convinced further bikeshedding on this issue has any
point. If you have any concrete concerns, you can voice them on the
issue tracker.

Regards

Antoine.