[Python-Dev] stat module in C -- what to do with stat.py? (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Jun 21 17:38:26 CEST 2013

Le Sat, 22 Jun 2013 01:29:40 +1000, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> a écrit :

On 21 June 2013 21:45, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote: > Le Fri, 21 Jun 2013 21:39:10 +1000, > Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> a écrit : >> What's not OK is for >> the standard library to regress for other implementations just >> because we added a C implementation for the benefit of CPython. >> That's exactly the kind of thing PEP 399 says we won't do. > > For me, PEP 399 should not be considered a requirement but a > guideline. stat.py is algorithmically trivial and I don't think it > saves much work for authors of third-party Python implementations.

So why not just replace the broken parts of stat.py and keep the rest of it? Why make pointless work for the other implementations?

I guess the answer is: because it's more work for us :-)

Basically, I want to hear from the Jython, PyPy and IronPython devs that they're OK with us deleting Lib/stat.py. Hearing other CPython devs say they're fine with it doesn't mean anything, since we're not the ones that will have to do additional work as a result.

Yes, I agree with that.

Regards

Antoine.

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