Message 334199 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

Message334199

Author	ionelmc
Recipients	Anthony Sottile, Chris Billington, Ivan.Pozdeev, SilentGhost, __Vano, barry, brett.cannon, christian.heimes, eric.smith, eric.snow, ethan smith, ionelmc, jaraco, mhammond, ncoghlan, pitrou, takluyver, terry.reedy, veky, vstinner
Date	2019-01-22.04:42:30
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Message-id	1548132150.78.0.344312466476.issue33944@roundup.psfhosted.org
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FYI I have 3 projects that use pth files to activate various features (an env var is usually the trigger): https://pypi.org/project/pytest-cov - enables coverage measurement in any subprocess https://pypi.org/project/manhole - installs a debug service https://pypi.org/project/hunter - installs a tracer I wouldn't like them being rendered almost or completely useless by such a hasty change. Running stuff during startup can be problematic and tricky, for example I have painfully found out that on python 2.7 you can completely hose up your codecs registry if you try to decode things during startup (before the registry is fully built) but I think it's a fair price for such a powerful feature.

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FYI I have 3 projects that use pth files to activate various features (an env var is usually the trigger): https://pypi.org/project/pytest-cov - enables coverage measurement in any subprocess https://pypi.org/project/manhole - installs a debug service https://pypi.org/project/hunter - installs a tracer I wouldn't like them being rendered almost or completely useless by such a hasty change. Running stuff during startup can be problematic and tricky, for example I have painfully found out that on python 2.7 you can completely hose up your codecs registry if you try to decode things during startup (before the registry is fully built) but I think it's a fair price for such a powerful feature.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2019-01-22 04:42:32	ionelmc	set	recipients: + ionelmc, mhammond, barry, brett.cannon, terry.reedy, jaraco, ncoghlan, pitrou, vstinner, eric.smith, christian.heimes, SilentGhost, __Vano, eric.snow, takluyver, veky, Ivan.Pozdeev, Anthony Sottile, ethan smith, Chris Billington
2019-01-22 04:42:30	ionelmc	set	messageid: 1548132150.78.0.344312466476.issue33944@roundup.psfhosted.org
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2019-01-22 04:42:30	ionelmc	create