[Distutils] Environment marker expression types

[Daniel Holth]

Do we really have to optimize the metadata for runtime parsing, or can
we have a distlib-specific indexing operation triggered by the
installer?

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Donald Stufft <donald <at> stufft.io> writes:
>
>> And here is where I wish JSON had a link type so that this data could
>> either be inlined, or a link to the externalized data could be included.
>
> While raw JSON does not include a link type, this needn't be a problem in
> practice. For example, distlib already contains mechanisms which support
> cross-references and references to external data, as per the example code in
> [1]. I will shortly be adding to this a mechanism to integrate data in
> external files in a standardised way.
>
> The distlib code is an extension of the mechanisms already in the stdlib in
> logging.config and used by dictConfig, which are documented at [2].
>
> Regards,
>
> Vinay Sajip
>
> [1] https://gist.github.com/vsajip/5473612
> [2]
> http://docs.python.org/2/library/logging.config.html#access-to-internal-objects
>
>
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