[Python-Dev] PEP 376

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

This is fixed.

Guido told me in private he's now accepting the PEP since there's consensus.

The next step is to finish PEP 376 implementation in distutils2, and pkgutil.

There will be a full backport of the new pkgutil in distutils2, so
third party projects that wants to
be compatible with this new standard will be able to start doing it
before Python 3.2 is out.

Thanks to all the folks that helped in this process !

Regards
Tarek

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