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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Dec 10 01:31:43 CET 2010

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> wrote:

Does anyone know why this needed a separate module and so many accessor functions? ISTM it mostly could have been reduced to single call returning a nested dictionary.

Tarek will likely answer for himself, but I believe it is a matter of providing like-for-like replacements of existing distutils APIs, specifically: http://docs.python.org/dev/distutils/apiref.html#module-distutils.sysconfig

The old way required source code available ability at runtime, the new sysconfig module captures everything it needs at build time.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

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