[stdlib-sig] Proposal: new "interpreter" module

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 05/04/2008, Benjamin Peterson <musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 1. Data and functions that are available in all Python implementations
> and
> >    deal with the general running of a Python VM.
> [...]
> >    - subversion, copyright, hexversion, version, and version_info
>
> subversion seems specific to CPython (and in fact, to the current
> development processes for CPython - if we moved to a DVCS like
> Mercurial or Bazaar, sys.subversion would have to go, or at least
> change meaning significantly).

That's true. I put it there originally because I thought of it as more
general version info, but I can see it moving, too.

>
>
> >    - flags, py3kwarning, dont_write_bytecode, and warn_options
>
> dont_write_bytecode is CPython-specific, aren't they? Jython and
> IronPython don't use bytecode files as far as I know.

I can't speak for IronPython, but Jython writes compiled Java classes
representing the Python. Anyway, I think this should really go in imp.

>
>
> The rest looks OK to me.
> Paul.
>



-- 
Cheers,
Benjamin Peterson
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