On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 08:23:00PM +0000, Brett Cannon wrote: > So freezing the stdlib helps on UNIX and not on OS X (if my old testing is > still accurate). I guess the next question is what it does on Windows and > if we would want to ever consider freezing the stdlib as part of the build > process (and if we would want to change the order of importers on > sys.meta_path so frozen modules came after file-based ones).
I find that being able to easily open stdlib .py files in a text editor to read the source is extremely valuable. I've learned much more from reading the source than from (e.g.) StackOverflow. Likewise, it's often handy to do a grep over the stdlib. When you talk about freezing the stdlib, what exactly does that mean? - will the source files still be there? - how will this affect people writing patches for bugs? -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
