[pypy-dev] Use of marshal in the sandbox: is stdlib marshal OK?

[Ned Batchelder]

On 12/28/2011 11:49 AM, Armin Rigo wrote:
> Hi Ned,
>
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 15:34, Ned Batchelder<ned at nedbatchelder.com>  wrote:
>> The problem with "bundling pypy's marshal.py" is that it pulls in a lot of
>> infrastructure modules, which bulks up the calling process.
> Unsure what you mean.  It seems to me that lib_pypy/marshal.py just
> imports lib_pypy/_marshal.py, which itself doesn't import any
> non-standard Python module.
True, but we use py to import it, why is that?  Perhaps I'm barking up 
the wrong tree trying to reduce the size of the pypy source tree I need 
alongside my sandbox.

--Ned.
>
> A bientôt,
>
> Armin.
>