[Python-Dev] New Python Initialization API (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Wed Mar 27 16:23:01 EDT 2019

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 12:39 PM Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> wrote:

On 27Mar2019 1048, Victor Stinner wrote: > Since November 2017, I'm refactoring the Python Initialization code to > cleanup the code and prepare a new ("better") API to configure Python > Initialization. I just fixed the last issues that Nick Coghlan asked > me to fix (add a pre-initialization step: done, fix mojibake: done). > My work is inspired by Nick Coghlan's PEP 432, but it is not > implementing it directly. I had other motivations than Nick even if we > are somehow going towards the same direction.

I this this should be its own PEP, since as you say it is not implementing the only PEP we have (or alternatively, maybe you should collaborate to update PEP 432 so that it reflects what you think we ought to be implementing).

I agree that if this isn't doing what PEP 432 set out but going its own way we should probably discuss in regards to 432.

-Brett

Having formal writeups of both ideas is important to help decide between the two. It's not good to overrule a PEP by pretending that your change isn't big enough to need its own. (Not trying to devalue the work you've been doing so far, since it's great! But internal changes are one thing, while updating the public, documented interfaces deserves a more thorough process.) Cheers, Steve

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