[Python-Dev] Python Language Summit at PyCon: Agenda (original) (raw)

fwierzbicki at gmail.com fwierzbicki at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 17:44:34 CET 2013

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

On Feb 27, 2013, at 11:33 AM, fwierzbicki at gmail.com wrote:

I am suggesting that we push forward on the "shared library" approach to the files in the Lib/* directory, so that would certainly include IronPython and PyPy as well I hope. +1 The easy part for Jython is pushing some of our "if isjython:" stuff into the appropriate spots in CPython's Lib/. I wonder if there isn't a better way to do this than sprinkling isjython, ispypy, isironpython, isthenextbigthing all over the code base. I have no bright ideas here, but it seems like a feature matrix would be a better way to go than something that assumes a particular Python implementation has a particular feature set (which may change in the future). Sorry I meant "is_jython" as a sort of shorthand for a case by case check. It would be cool if we had a nice set of checks somewhere like "is_refcounted", etc. Would the sys.implementation area be a good place for such things?

On the other hand in some ways Jython is sort of like Python on a weird virtual OS that lets the real OS bleed through some. This may still need to be checked in that way (there's are still checks of <if os.name == 'nt'> right?)

-Frank

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