On 21. 06. 21 20:20, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Okay, I think your evidence can then be discounted. Really, any app that
relies on the publicly installed Python runs a serious risk of breaking
when that Python gets updated, regardless of whether the ABI changes or not.
Unfortunately, this includes scripts for any extensible software
(Mayavi, GIMP, etc) -- even if Python is bundled with that software,
upgrading the software risks breaking the scripts.
On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 2:46 AM Baptiste Carvello
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<mailto:devel2...@baptiste-carvello.net>> wrote:
Hi,
Le 18/06/2021 à 21:00, Guido van Rossum a écrit :
> Can you elaborate on that use case? Which two applications are you
> thinking of, and what was your goal in driving them? This sounds
> interesting but I haven’t encountered this myself.
Well, I'm not sure the case I was thinking of is still relevant to
anything: that was plotting 3D crystal models using crystallography
library CCTBX [1] and visualization application Mayavi [2], some 15-20
years ago. BTW, I misremembered a bit: only CCTBX insisted on using a
vendored python ("libtbx.python"), Mayavi used the system python.
Anyway, it was more pain to make Mayavi use libtbx.python, than to make
CCTBX work with the system python.
Also, I must admit that even applications embedding the system python
can have some limitations. For example, GIMP and GDB can execute python
scripts, but their API can't be "imported" from the outside. Which means
no arguments passed to the script over the command line ("sys.argv"), no
venvs, no REPL. But at least you can install additional packages (pip /
distro package manager) and limitations can be more or less hacked
around. For a sophisticated example, the debugger extension Voltron [3]
provides REPL access to GDB objects over a client-server connexion.
Cheers,
Baptiste
[1] https://cci.lbl.gov/docs/cctbx/ <https://cci.lbl.gov/docs/cctbx/>
[2] https://docs.enthought.com/mayavi/mayavi/
<https://docs.enthought.com/mayavi/mayavi/>
[3] https://github.com/snare/voltron <https://github.com/snare/voltron>
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 09:44 Baptiste Carvello
> <devel2...@baptiste-carvello.net
<mailto:devel2...@baptiste-carvello.net>
> <mailto:devel2...@baptiste-carvello.net
<mailto:devel2...@baptiste-carvello.net>>> wrote:
>
> Le 18/06/2021 à 08:50, Paul Moore a écrit :
> >
> > IMO it doesn't. However for certain applications (the sort
of thing I
> > was referring to) - where the user is writing their own
scripts and
> > the embedding API is used merely to expose an interface to
the Python
> > language, dynamically linking to whatever version of Python
the user
> > has installed can be precisely the right thing to do - the
user gets
> > access to the version of the language they expect, the
installed
> > packages they expect to see, etc.
>
> As a user, I second this. When trying to drive applications
from the
> outside (as opposed to extending them through plugins), it is
annoying
> when two applications won't work together because each one
insists on
> using its own vendored python.
>
> Of course, there are often real blockers, such as
incompatible event
> loops. But not always…
>
> Cheers,
> Baptiste
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