On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Raymond Hettinger <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone know why this needed a separate module and so many accessor > functions? > ISTM it mostly could have been reduced to single call returning a nested > dictionary.
Tarek will likely answer for himself, but I believe it is a matter of providing like-for-like replacements of existing distutils APIs, specifically: http://docs.python.org/dev/distutils/apiref.html#module-distutils.sysconfig The old way required source code available ability at runtime, the new sysconfig module captures everything it needs at build time. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
