On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Armin Ronacher <armin.ronac...@active-4.com> wrote: > Please do not write or advocate for import hooks, especially not for > porting purposes. It would either mean that people start adding that > hook on their own to the code (and that awfully reminds me of the days > of 'require "rubygems"' in the Ruby world) or that the __init__.py has > to do that and that's a non trivial thing.
I'd love a pointer to the rubygems debacle... > The hook on install time works perfectly fine and the only situation > where it might not work is when you're trying to use Python 3.2 for > development and also support down to 2.x by using the newly introduced > u-prefixes. In this case I would recommend using Python 3.3 for > development and running the testsuite periodically from Python 3.2 after > installating the library (into a virtualenv for instance). +1 > The current work in progress install time hook can be found here: > https://github.com/mitsuhiko/unicode-literals-pep/tree/master/install-hook Yee! -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
