[Python-Dev] Distutils & configparser rename (original) (raw)

Gregory P. Smith greg at krypto.org
Fri May 16 06:08:13 CEST 2008

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 1:33 PM, A.M. Kuchling <amk at amk.ca> wrote:

Python 2.6 renames the ConfigParser module to be configparser.

Distutils imports ConfigParser in various places. I just made a commit updating the import in one places, and then noticed that part of commit r63248, which made the same change, was reverted in order to preserve backward-compatibility. Instead, the default path will include lib-old again to keep the old module name available. I suggest dropping that goal, though. We've preserved compatibility but I'm not aware that anyone uses the Python 2.x Distutils with earlier versions of Python. In particular: * There's no standalone distutils package on PyPI, nor can I find such a package with a general web search. Am I missing it? * I do not see users advising other users to use a later version of Distutils to fix their problems. Is anyone actually benefiting from the effort of maintaining backward compatibility? The change was reverted at MAL's request, but he didn't qualify it beyond wanting the backwards-compatibility. -Brett

backwards compatibility? whats wrong with just doing:

try: import configparser as ConfigParser except ImportError: import ConfigParser

in the distutils code that needs to be.

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