[Distutils] PEP 517 again

xoviat xoviat at gmail.com
Fri Aug 25 12:48:54 EDT 2017


By the way, what is the status on sys.path?

On Aug 25, 2017 11:45 AM, "Donald Stufft" <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

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> On Aug 25, 2017, at 12:38 PM, xoviat <xoviat at gmail.com> wrote:
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> According to the documentation, NotImplemented isn't appropriate either,
> as is for binary operations only. There is no one value that's taylor made
> for this situation, but an exception may be more appropriate as the
> underlying cause is probably an error.
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> The underlying cause is *not* an error just the same as it’s not an error
> for a __eq__ to not know how to test equality against a specific `other`.
> The underlying cause is explicitly “I do not want to or know how to handle
> this case” not “I’ve accidentally called some code that wasn’t implemented
> yet”. The use case is almost exactly the same as the binop use case.
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>> Donald Stufft
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