[Python-Dev] Addressing Outstanding PEPs

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Wed Apr 26 18:49:13 CEST 2006


At 11:55 PM 4/25/2006 -0700, Neal Norwitz wrote:
>   S   243  Module Repository Upload Mechanism           Reifschneider

This one needs to be withdrawn or updated - it totally doesn't match the 
implementation in Python 2.5.


>   S   302  New Import Hooks                             JvR, Moore

Unless somebody loans me the time machine, I won't be able to finish all of 
PEP 302's remaining items before the next alpha.  Some, like the idea of 
moving the built-in logic to sys.meta_path, can't be done until Py3K 
without having adverse impact on deployed software.


>   S   334  Simple Coroutines via SuspendIteration       Evans

IIRC, this one's use cases can be met by using a coroutine trampoline as 
described in PEP 342.


>   S   345  Metadata for Python Software Packages 1.2    Jones

This one should not be accepted in its current state; too much 
specification of syntax, too little of semantics.  And the specifications 
that *are* there, are often wrong.  For example, the strict version syntax 
wouldn't even support *Python's own* version numbering scheme, let alone 
the many package versioning schemes in actual use.



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