[Python-Dev] stat module in C -- what to do with stat.py?

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Thu Jun 20 17:35:22 CEST 2013


2013/6/20 Charles-François Natali <cf.natali at gmail.com>:
> 2013/6/20 Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org>:
>> If the .py file is going to be wrong or incomplete, why would we want to
>> keep it -- or use it as fallback -- at all? If we're dead set on having a
>> .py file instead of requiring it to be part of the interpreter (whichever
>> that is, however it was built), it should be generated as part of the build
>> process. Personally, I don't see the value in it; other implementations will
>> need to do *something* special to use it anyway.
>
> That's exactly my rationale for pushing for removal.

+1 to nixing it.



--
Regards,
Benjamin


More information about the Python-Dev mailing list