On 1 August 2018 at 08:14, Victor Stinner
Hi,
I finished my work on the _PyCoreConfig structure: it's a C structure in Include/pystate.h which has many fields used to configure Python initialization. In Python 3.6 and older, these parameters were scatted around the code, and it was hard to get an exhaustive list of it.
This work is linked to the Nick Coghlan's PEP 432 "Restructuring the CPython startup sequence": https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0432/
Right now, the new API is still private. Nick Coghlan splitted the initialization in two parts: "core" and "main". I'm not sure that this split is needed.
It is, because one of the aims is to make it clear when frozen bytecode (ala importlib) and other builtin modules can start to be used as part of the configuration process. That point is when the core configuration completes. By contrast, main interpreter configuration is only complete when you have full filesystem access as well (including external imports). That separation also means that an embedding application can choose *not* to proceed to the second step, and thus limit imports to the modules built in to the application.
We should see what to do, but it would be nice to make the _PyCoreConfig API public! IMHO it's way better than the old way to configuration Python initialization.
Step 1 will be to bring PEP 432 up to date with what actually happened - we learned a lot from your and Eric's efforts in actually implementing the draft design as a private API, but the current PEP still reflects the original design concept. Thanks for all your work on this! It's exciting to see it finally coming to fruition :) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia