Jean-Paul Calderone <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, 20 May 2009 10:17:31 +1000, Ben Finney <[email protected]> > wrote: > >Those breakages seem to be caused in part because the module > >containing version information is doing too much. > > The only thing the version module does is define the version. For example, > > $ cat _version.py > # This is an auto-generated file. Use Epsilon/bin/release-divmod to update. > from twisted.python import versions > version = versions.Version(__name__[:__name__.rfind('.')], 0, 9, 33) > $ > > Of course, the "too much" here is the use of a structured version > object.
No, I would say “too much” here is importing a module not guaranteed to be installed, for creating something as simple as a version. I'd prefer the above to be:: $ cat _version.py # This is an auto-generated file. Use magicbean to update. version = "0.9.33" $ Anything that wants to have that structured into something more complex than a delimited string can use the funky Version type; but this particular module should import without any dependencies, for exactly the reasons that started this thread. > Doing anything simpler would be much like the approach Phillip's > pointed out, to have a simple text file and parse its contents without > getting Python involved at all. I still like the approach of having it in a module that can be imported to automatically have the name bound to an appropriate value. -- \ “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will | `\ not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog | _o__) and a man.” —Mark Twain, _Pudd'n'head Wilson_ | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
