[Python-Dev] using openssh's pty code (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum gvanrossum at gmail.com
Sun Sep 26 23:01:47 CEST 2004

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 13:46:41 -0500, J Raynor <raynorj at mn.rr.com> wrote:

I think I could improve the pty module by having it follow openssh's procedures, but I would wind up rewriting several configure checks in python, and I imagine some of them can only reliably be checked by compiling a small C program, like configure does. I think the better solution would be to modify the C code in posixmodule.c, or to provide an alternate module (written in C). For the alternate module idea, the pty module could import it and check to see if it provides openpty() (for example), just as the pty module currently tries to use os.openpty() before it tries its own implementation of openpty().

Agreed that this would be best served by writing C code. I hope that it can be done without violating someone else's license and without weighing down future Python distributions with someone else's license. No matter how sensible the other license is, adding licenses to the stack of licenses is not a good idea at this point.

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