PEP 382 Sprint
- Silver Spring, Maryland USA 21-Jun-2011 2000UTC
Tasks
review Martin's branch hg clone http://hg.python.org/features/pep-382
- look for reference counting issues
other initialization issues (*foo = NULL)
- do we have sufficient test coverage?
top-level non-trivial init.py
- various reload scenarios
both __init__.py and .pth file exists
- multiple .pth files in the same namespace package directory
.pth files that contain path names: do they set __path__ correctly?
is package.__path__ set correctly? must contain one *, at the beginning
is importlib is covered?
- pull down 3rd party pep 302 loader and see if/how it's broken
- refactor import.c to yank out anything that can be written as a 302 loader?
- --e.g. zip import-- Already done, but zipimport needs to support PEP-382
- could land independently (but need to go through python-dev)
- does this really make our lives easier?
- attempt a merge of mvl's branch to trunk
- figure out build problems on windows (jaraco)
- test_imp gives one failure on fedora (make sure imp module has been updated)
- stylistic cleansing of import.c
- tests against 0 vs. NULL
- mispellings
PEP Questions
Clarify what happens when a directory contains both an __init__.py and a .pth file
PEP should clarify what the impact of the PEP is on existing namespace packages (i.e. those with magic __init__.py files
Do import statements in .pth files get ignored or does it raise an error?
- Impact of PEP on setuptools/packaging/distutils*
Use case for extending existing .pth file syntax (minus import support)? I.e why are non-* lines in the .pth files added to path? And should these really be called .pth files? At least clarify the PEP!