[Python-Dev] 3.0.1 possibilities (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Dec 8 21:35:35 CET 2008

Brett Cannon wrote:

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 05:11, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

On Dec 7, 2008, at 7:56 PM, Christian Heimes wrote:

Barry Warsaw wrote:

I'm personally okay with performance fixes in point releases, as long it doesn't change API or add additional features. Does your okay include or exclude new internal APIs like new helper functions or a new C modules? I /personally/ don't have a problem with that, but we need consensus before that becomes policy. Internal as in just for us I am fine with, but not nothing publicly available.

Where would adding a (undocumented) get_filename() method to ZipImporter objects for the benefit of the -m switch fit then? There are a few things which don't always work properly because runpy doesn't currently know how to set file properly when the module comes a zipfile.

Although now that I think about it, I could actually fix that "the right way" (with a documented get_filename() method on ZipImporter) for 2.7 and 3.1, while using a runpy internal workaround specifically for ZipImporter instances in the maintenance branches...

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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