On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:10, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: >> Strictly speaking, I do think you need to deprecate the APIs. I like >> Nick's >> suggestion to make them C wrappers which just call back into Python. > > > That was my plan, but the amount of code it will take to wrap them is making > me not care. =) For PyImport_GetMagicTag() I would need to expose a new > attribute on sys or somewhere which specifies the VM name. For > PyImport_GetMagicNumber() I have to do a bunch of bit twiddling to convert a > bytes object into a long which I am just flat-out not in the mood to figure > out how to do. And all of this will lead to the same amount of C code as > there currently is for what is already implemented, so I just don't care > anymore. =)
I thought I already (mostly) worked it all out in that patch on issue13959. I felt really good about the approach for the magic tag and magic bytes. Once find_module() and reload() are done in imp.py, I'm hoping to follow up on a few things. That includes the unresolved mailing list thread about sys.implementation (or whatever it was), which will help with the magic tag. Anyway, I don't want to curtail the gutting of import.c quite yet (as he hears cries of "bring out your dead!"). -eric p.s. I understand your sentiment here, considering that mothers are often exhausted by childbirth and the importlib bootstrap was a big baby. You were in labor for, what, 6 years. <wink> [There's an analogy that could keep on giving. :) ] _______________________________________________ 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
