[Python-Dev] setuptools in 2.5. (original) (raw)

Walter Dörwald walter at livinglogic.de
Thu Apr 20 10:35:54 CEST 2006

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

Anthony Baxter wrote:

I also don't think it will be the "death" of distutils. I think that over time the two pieces of code will become closer together - hopefully for Python 3.0 we can formally merge the two. I was hoping that for Python 3.0, we could get around to unkludge the sys.path/metapath/pathhooks/pathimportercache big ball of hacks, possibly by replacing sys.path with something a bit more intelligent than a plain list.

+1000

I'd like to be able to simply import a file if I have the filename. And I'd like to be able to load sourcecode from an Oracle database and have useful "filename" and line number information if I get a traceback.

Servus, Walter

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