[Python-Dev] PEP 451 update (original) (raw)

Eric Snow ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com
Fri Oct 25 08:44:35 CEST 2013

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 6:01 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

On 24 October 2013 16:05, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com> wrote:

* I've asserted that there shouldn't be much difficulty in adjusting pkgutil and other modules to work with ModuleSpec. More specifically: importlib finders will still expose the previous import plugin API for backwards compatibility, so the worst case scenario is that we miss something and there's an API somewhere that doesn't accept import plugins that only provide the new API and not the old one. However, the PEP should explicitly state that any such omissions will be treated as bugs in the 3.4.x series (although we'll aim to handle them all in the initial implementation).

Good point. I'll add that.

Thanks for recording the details of the earlier off-list discussion :)

:)

-eric

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