Hello, I am trying to refactor distutils.log in order to use logging but I have been bugged by the fact that site.py uses distutils.util.get_platform() in "addbuilddir". The problem is the order of imports at initialization time : importing "logging" into distutils will make the initialization/build fail because site.py wil break when trying to import "logging", then "time".
Anyways, So why site.py looks into distutils ? because distutils has a few functions to get some info about the platform and about the Makefile and some other header files like pyconfig.h etc. But I don't think it's the best place for this, and I have a proposal : let's create a dedicated "sysconfig" module in the standard library that will provide all the (refactored) functions located in distutils.sysconfig (but not customize_compiler) and disutils.util.get_platform. This module can be used by site.py, by distutils, and others, and will focus on this role. Regards Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ 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
