[Python-Dev] Inconsistent behaviour in import/zipimport hooks

[Guido van Rossum]

On 11/10/05, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> At 04:33 PM 11/9/2005 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> >On 11/9/05, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> > > By the way, while we're on this subject, can we make the optimization
> > > options be part of the compile() interface?  Right now the distutils has to
> > > actually exec another Python process whenever you want to compile
> > > code with
> > > a different optimization level than what's currently in effect, whereas if
> > > it could pass the desired level to compile(), this wouldn't be necessary.
> >
> >Makes sense to me; we need a patch of course.
>
> But before we can do that, it's not clear to me if it should be part of the
> existing "flags" argument, or whether it should be separate.  Similarly,
> whether it's just going to be a level or an optimization bitmask in its own
> right might be relevant too.
>
> For the current use case, obviously, a level argument suffices, with 'None'
> meaning "whatever the command-line level was" for backward
> compatibility.  And I guess we could go with that for now easily enough,
> I'd just like to know whether any of the AST or optimization mavens had
> anything they were planning in the immediate future that might affect how
> the API addition should be structured.

I'm not a big user of this API, please design as you see fit.

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