[Python-Dev] Planning on removing cache invalidation for file finders (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun Mar 3 12:29:48 CET 2013

On Sat, 2 Mar 2013 18:38:15 -0500 Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

> > You can deprecate the heuristic if you want (and can figure out how), > but a definite -1 on removing it without at least the usual > deprecation period for backwards incompatible changes. >

That part is easy: ImportWarning still exists so simply continuing to check the directory and noticing when a difference exists that affects subsequent imports and then raising the warning will handle that.

Won't that raise spurious ImportWarnings for people who don't actually care about that?

Regards

Antoine.

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