[Python-Dev] Hacking on the compiler in ways that break the frozen instance of importlib... (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun May 27 19:51:45 CEST 2012


On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:13:17 +0200 martin at v.loewis.de wrote:

> Nasty! Perhaps freezeimportlib.py could be rewritten in C, so > importlib could be recompiled when the compiler changes?

Or we support bootstrapping from the source file, e.g. with an environment variable BOOTSTRAPPY which points to the bootstrap.py source.

I've opened http://bugs.python.org/issue14928 and made it a release blocker.

Regards

Antoine.



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