[Python-Dev] Community buildbots (original) (raw)

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Sat Jul 15 04:47:26 CEST 2006

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 23:38:52 +0200, ""Martin v. Löwis"" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

Christopher Armstrong wrote:

python -U is a failure for obvious reasons and a future import is clearly better. I disagree.

I am surprised that you do, since I thought that Chris's conclusion was pretty obvious. Python -U doesn't work, even on the standard library.

For example,

glyph at legion:~% python -S -U -c 'import pickletools' Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ? File "/usr/lib/python2.4/pickletools.py", line 219, in ? doc="One-byte unsigned integer.") File "/usr/lib/python2.4/pickletools.py", line 187, in init assert isinstance(name, str) AssertionError

This was just the first convenient example. There are others.

A future import would allow these behaviors to be upgraded module-by-module. Right now, all -U provides is an option that can't be used on any realistically sized program, so I don't see what the utility is.

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