[Python-Dev] BDFL-Delegate appointments for several PEPs (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Mar 30 11:26:49 EDT 2019


On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 20:34, Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au> wrote:

Clearly the above needs to accomodate this, possibly with a fallback guess. Is sniffing the end components of file at all sane? ending in idlelib/pyshell.py or pyshell.py? Or is that just getting baroque?

I don't think these are strictly the same from some kind of purist viewpoint: the path might be anything - is it reasonable to suppose that it has a module name (== importable/finding through the import path)?

Directly executing files from inside Python packages is explicitly unsupported, and nigh guaranteed to result in a broken import setup, as relative imports won't work, and absolute imports will most likely result in a second copy of the script module getting loaded.

The problem is that main always thinks it is a top-level module for directly executed scripts - it needs the package structure information from the "-m" switch to learn otherwise.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia



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