Re: [Python-Dev] Why does python use relative instead of absolute path when calling LoadLibrary*

2015-03-13 Thread Stefano Borini
On 3/11/15 9:36 PM, David Cournapeau wrote: Hi, While looking at the import code of python for C extensions, I was wondering why we pass a relative path instead of an absolute path to LoadLibraryEx (see bottom for some context). In python 2.7, the full path existence was even checked before c

[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

2015-03-13 Thread Python tracker
ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2015-03-06 - 2015-03-13) Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/ To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue. Do NOT respond to this message. Issues counts and deltas: open4817 (+13) closed 30604 (+49) total 35421 (+62) Open issues wit

Re: [Python-Dev] Request for Pronouncement: PEP 441 - Improving Python ZIP Application Support

2015-03-13 Thread Brett Cannon
On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 10:35 AM Brett Cannon wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 8, 2015, 08:40 Paul Moore wrote: > > On 26 February 2015 at 21:48, Paul Moore wrote: > > On 26 February 2015 at 21:34, Guido van Rossum wrote: > >> Accepted! > >> > >> Thanks for your patience, Paul, and thanks everyone for t

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 488: elimination of PYO files

2015-03-13 Thread Brett Cannon
Here is the latest draft of the PEP. I have closed the issue of file name formatting thanks to the informal poll results being very clear on the preferred format and also closed the idea of embedding the optimization level in the bytecode file metadata (that can be another PEP if someone cares to w

Re: [Python-Dev] Why does python use relative instead of absolute path when calling LoadLibrary*

2015-03-13 Thread David Cournapeau
Thank you both for your answers. I will go away with this modification, and see how it goes. David On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 2:41 AM, Wes Turner wrote: > > On Mar 11, 2015 3:36 PM, "David Cournapeau" wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > While looking at the import code of python for C extensions, I was >