Re: [Python-Dev] What level of detail wanted for import and the language reference?

2009-03-20 Thread Brett Cannon
Doc changes are now checked in. Someone who has not been starting at import for over two years should probably go in and clean it up as it is probably not clear to a newbie (but then again newbies should not be reading the language ref; more worried about the docs in sys). On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at

Re: [Python-Dev] What level of detail wanted for import and the language reference?

2009-03-20 Thread Benjamin Peterson
2009/3/20 Brett Cannon br...@python.org: Doc changes are now checked in. Someone who has not been starting at import for over two years should probably go in and clean it up as it is probably not clear to a newbie (but then again newbies should not be reading the language ref; more worried

Re: [Python-Dev] What level of detail wanted for import and the language reference?

2009-03-20 Thread Brett Cannon
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 20:18, Benjamin Peterson benja...@python.orgwrote: 2009/3/20 Brett Cannon br...@python.org: Doc changes are now checked in. Someone who has not been starting at import for over two years should probably go in and clean it up as it is probably not clear to a newbie

Re: [Python-Dev] What level of detail wanted for import and the language reference?

2009-03-18 Thread Georg Brandl
Benjamin Peterson schrieb: 2009/3/16 Brett Cannon br...@python.org: At this point importlib is done for its public API for Python 3.1. That means it's time to turn my attention to making sure the semantics of import are well documented. But where to put all of the details? The language

Re: [Python-Dev] What level of detail wanted for import and the language reference?

2009-03-17 Thread Nick Coghlan
Steve Holden wrote: Why not just put a section in both places that says can't be bothered to spell this out right now and put a URL in referring to this thread on Google ... that appears to have been the traditional approach to import semantics :) Well, first we point to Guido's original

Re: [Python-Dev] What level of detail wanted for import and the language reference?

2009-03-17 Thread Brett Cannon
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 06:55, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: Steve Holden wrote: Why not just put a section in both places that says can't be bothered to spell this out right now and put a URL in referring to this thread on Google ... that appears to have been the traditional

Re: [Python-Dev] What level of detail wanted for import and the language reference?

2009-03-16 Thread Michael Foord
Brett Cannon wrote: At this point importlib is done for its public API for Python 3.1. That means it's time to turn my attention to making sure the semantics of import are well documented. But where to put all of the details? The language reference for import

Re: [Python-Dev] What level of detail wanted for import and the language reference?

2009-03-16 Thread Benjamin Peterson
2009/3/16 Brett Cannon br...@python.org: At this point importlib is done for its public API for Python 3.1. That means it's time to turn my attention to making sure the semantics of import are well documented. But where to put all of the details? The language reference for import

Re: [Python-Dev] What level of detail wanted for import and the language reference?

2009-03-16 Thread Aahz
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009, Michael Foord wrote: Personally I would rather see the import semantics themselves in the language reference. Either way is fine with me, but it needs to be cross-referenced. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) * http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Adopt A

Re: [Python-Dev] What level of detail wanted for import and the language reference?

2009-03-16 Thread Steve Holden
Brett Cannon wrote: At this point importlib is done for its public API for Python 3.1. That means it's time to turn my attention to making sure the semantics of import are well documented. But where to put all of the details? The language reference for import