[Python-Dev] First draft of "sysconfig"

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
[...]
>>  'nt': {
>>        'stdlib': '$base/Lib',
>>        'platstdlib': '$base/Lib',
>>        'purelib': '$base/Lib/site-packages',
>>        'platlib': '$base/Lib/site-packages',
>>        'include': '$base/include',
>>        'platinclude': '$base/include',
>>        'scripts': '$base/Scripts',
>>        'data'   : '$base',
>>        },
>>  ...
>> }
>>
>
> Are you using string.Template because this code needs to run on installs
> older than 2.6?
> -Brett

Not really. That's mostly because I reused the existing implementation
and I found them quite readable in that case. But a string.Formatter
could work well here too I guess.

Tarek