[Python-Dev] 3rd party extensions hot-fixing the stdlib (setuptools in the stdlib)

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 10:08 PM 4/19/2006 -0500, Michael Urman wrote:
>On 4/19/06, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> > People blame setuptools when pydoc doesn't work on packages in zip
> > files.  Rather than refer to some theoretical argument why it's not my
> > fault and I shouldn't be the one to fix it, I prefer to fix the problem.
>
>So rather than extract the zip at install time (something purely
>within setuptool's domain), you found modifying pydoc's behavior to be
>a more compelling story.

Absolutely!  It adds a new and useful feature to Python, while extracting 
the files doesn't.  In the meantime, of course, I've told affected users to 
use the 'always-unzip' option when installing.


>  Are you aware that zipimport fails on 64-bit
>systems in Python 2.3, or do you plan to patch over that as well?

Nope.  I implemented a workaround instead.  :)  For a few months now, 
setuptools generates uncompressed zipfiles for Python 2.3, since it's only 
compressed zipfiles that give 64-bit zipimport fits.  The setuptools docs 
still claim you have to use Python 2.4 for 64-bit platforms, but I only 
left that in because there are still plenty of 2.3 compressed eggs floating 
around.

Do you know of any other Python bugs I should be fixing or working around?  :)