[Python-Dev] Install Hook [Was: Re: PEP 414 updated]

[Guido van Rossum]

On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Armin Ronacher
<armin.ronacher at active-4.com> wrote:
> Please do not write or advocate for import hooks, especially not for
> porting purposes.  It would either mean that people start adding that
> hook on their own to the code (and that awfully reminds me of the days
> of 'require "rubygems"' in the Ruby world) or that the __init__.py has
> to do that and that's a non trivial thing.

I'd love a pointer to the rubygems debacle...

> The hook on install time works perfectly fine and the only situation
> where it might not work is when you're trying to use Python 3.2 for
> development and also support down to 2.x by using the newly introduced
> u-prefixes.  In this case I would recommend using Python 3.3 for
> development and running the testsuite periodically from Python 3.2 after
> installating the library (into a virtualenv for instance).

+1

> The current work in progress install time hook can be found here:
>  https://github.com/mitsuhiko/unicode-literals-pep/tree/master/install-hook

Yee!

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