On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 12:12 Chris Jerdonek <chris.jerdo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Did you also think about whether it would be possible for a library to >> advertise itself without having to depend on a third-party library >> (e.g. using some sort of convention)? That would permit a less >> "centralized" approach. > > > What kind of convention do you have in mind?
Good question. I don't claim to know the answer which is why I asked if you had thought about it. The *kind* of thing I had in mind was to set a variable with an agreed-upon name and value on an agreed-upon module in the standard library -- though I agree that seems hacky as stated. It does seem to me like something that should (already?) have a general solution. What other ways does Python let things register or "announce" themselves? --Chris > > The problem with a convention AFAICT is that you need some shared agreement > about where to rendezvous. That's basically all the sniffio library is: a > shared, neutral place for libraries to advertise themselves. (Plus a > fallback for detecting asyncio, because stdlib libraries have special > constraints.) > > -n _______________________________________________ Async-sig mailing list Async-sig@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/async-sig Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
