[Python-Dev] PEP 376

[Tarek Ziadé]

2010/4/22 P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>:
> At 10:54 AM 4/22/2010 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I think I went through all the latest feedback regarding PEP 376.
>>
>> There will be still some work of course, on the implementation side
>> (for instance the Zip issues described by PJE).
>>
>> But I would like to go ahead and propose PEP 376 for acceptance.
>
> One final (optional) question/suggestion...  should we change from this (in
> RECORD files):
>
>    lib/python2.6/site-packages/docutils/__init__.pyc
>
> to this:
>
>    lib/python2.6/site-packages/docutils/__init__.pyc,,
>
> In this way, reader code can be written as:
>
>    for path, hash, size in csv.reader(...):
>
> It's not a high-priority thing, but if anybody is writing code to parse
> RECORD files outside the provided API implementation (eg. system packaging
> tool authors), they'll probably appreciate this.  ;-)
>

Yes, of course. the RECORD file is supposed to be iterable using the csv reader,
so that's a mistake in the PEP.

Thanks for noticing, I'll fix it later today

>



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