[Python-Dev] PEP about sys.implementation and implementation specific user site directory (original) (raw)

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Sat Oct 10 02:44:01 CEST 2009

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Given that this is all about establishing some common ground between implementations I would propose not using a CPython specific term here such as PyStructSequence :) The Python docs seem to use structseq for sys.floatinfo. Also, why does it have to be a sequence in the first place? Wouldn't a plain object with named attributes be good enough?

Any object with attributes is good enough. For CPython a structseq provides the necessary feature of a read only object with attributes. I figured out it's the easiest way to archive the goal without creating a new class.

compiler (required): verbose name of the compiler, for example "GCC 4.3.3", "Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (Apple Inc.)", "Mono JIT compiler version 2.0.1" What's the value of this attribute? The main reason I ask is there's no way that I know of to determine the JIT being used in .NET. We could of course fill in some dummy value here for IronPython but I'm also not sure why anyone would use this. Also, why is it the name of the JIT compiler, and not the name of the source language compiler?

The term "source language compiler" describes the intent of the field perfectly. Thanks Martin! I was merely guessing what the compiler name may look like on Jython.

Christian

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