My guess that there was no specific intent -- most likely it occurred to nobody that the main() functionality was actually useful. I'd say it's fine to put it back, and then document it (so it won't be removed again :-).
--Guido On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Meador Inge <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have been investing some 'tokenize' bugs recently. As a part of > that investigation I was trying to use '-m tokenize', which works > great in 2.x: > > [meadori@motherbrain cpython]$ python2.7 -m tokenize test.py > 1,0-1,5: NAME 'print' > 1,6-1,21: STRING '"Hello, World!"' > 1,21-1,22: NEWLINE '\n' > 2,0-2,0: ENDMARKER '' > > In 3.x, however, the functionality has been removed and replaced with > some hard-wired test code: > > [meadori@motherbrain cpython]$ python3 -m tokenize test.py > TokenInfo(type=57 (ENCODING), string='utf-8', start=(0, 0), end=(0, 0), > line='') > TokenInfo(type=1 (NAME), string='def', start=(1, 0), end=(1, 3), > line='def parseline(self, line):') > TokenInfo(type=1 (NAME), string='parseline', start=(1, 4), end=(1, > 13), line='def parseline(self, line):') > TokenInfo(type=53 (OP), string='(', start=(1, 13), end=(1, 14), > line='def parseline(self, line):') > ... > > Why is this? I found the commit where the functionality was removed > [1], but no explanation. Any objection to adding this feature back? > > [1] http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/51e24512e305/ > > -- > # Meador > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
