[Python-Dev] API for the new sysconfig module (original) (raw)

Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettinger at gmail.com
Fri Dec 10 22:35:03 CET 2010

On Dec 10, 2010, at 12:56 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:27:26 -0800 Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> wrote:

IMO, sysconfig did not warrant a whole module. Where would you put it?

A single function in the sys module.

Rather than using two levels of dictionary, it's also possible to use a named tuple if you think that is more clean looking:

c = sys.sysconfig() c.configvars.get('SO) '.pyd' Some of these things are computed at runtime by parsing makefiles and other stuff. You don't want to do it as soon as the module is imported.

The proposal is for a function that does the computation when invoked, not when imported. The function returns a named tuple so that we can use Python's builtin accessors like attributes and dict.get().

Raymond

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