At 07:33 AM 7/28/2006 +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >Phillip J. Eby wrote: > > I'm willing to write code that makes it PEP 302 compliant, if the release > > manager will bless such an addition. But if that's not acceptable, then > > somebody needs to produce the necessary documentation updates or revert > the > > patch. It absolutely should not be allowed to remain in *and* > undocumented > > because it is a backwards-incompatible change to documented behavior of > > Python for two major releases (2.3 and 2.4). > >You don't need a release manager pronouncement for that. It's a bug, >changing it is a bug fix, you don't need RM permission to fix a bug. > >Do you have a patch ready that restores path_importer_cache behavior, >yet preserves the property that it caches existence of a directory? >If not, I will have to produce one.
The issue is that a proper fix that caches existence requires adding new types to import.c and thus might appear to be more of a feature. I was therefore reluctant to embark upon the work without some assurance that it wouldn't be rejected as adding a last-minute feature. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
