[Python-Dev] proposed which.py replacement (original) (raw)

Trent Mick trentm at activestate.com
Mon Apr 2 18:40:03 CEST 2007

Guido van Rossum wrote:

If you ask me, having it hosted by Trent is probably more helpful for its popularity than putting it in the Python source distro; the Tools directory is mostly a poorly-maintained collection of trivia I wrote many years ago that is now quietly gathering dust.

(Not all of it, of course; there's some useful stuff there that I didn't write, which ended up there because it is either used by the distro (e.g. the compiler package support) or because the author needed a channel that guaranteed open source status (e.g. world and pynche). But Trent's which.py doesn't seem to fall in either category.)

Agreed. However, I think my which.py might be a good candidate for the stdlib (for Py2.6) as per python.org/sf/1509798 and could put together a patch (along with test suite integrate and docs) if others think it worthwhile.

Trent

-- Trent Mick trentm at activestate.com

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