Message 113511 - Python tracker

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Author	pitrou
Recipients	brett.cannon, lemburg, mark.dickinson, orsenthil, pitrou, rhettinger, vstinner
Date	2010-08-10.09:32:46
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> > heapq tries to import _heapq but, at this point, the build dir > > (such as "build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.2/") hasn't been added to sys.path > > The problem only exists for developers, not for an installation copy > of Python? This particular problem indeed (for developers and for buildbots - see the weird test_heapq failures on some OS X buildbots). > Another approach is to call required site code earlier (eg. rewrite it > in C and execute it before loading the locale module). Indeed, but since it calls sysconfig.get_platform(), I'm not sure how much code would need to be rewritten in C.

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> > heapq tries to import _heapq but, at this point, the build dir 
> > (such as "build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.2/") hasn't been added to sys.path
> 
> The problem only exists for developers, not for an installation copy
> of Python?

This particular problem indeed (for developers and for buildbots - see
the weird test_heapq failures on some OS X buildbots).

> Another approach is to call required site code earlier (eg. rewrite it
> in C and execute it before loading the locale module).

Indeed, but since it calls sysconfig.get_platform(), I'm not sure how
much code would need to be rewritten in C.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2010-08-10 09:32:48	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, lemburg, brett.cannon, rhettinger, mark.dickinson, orsenthil, vstinner
2010-08-10 09:32:46	pitrou	link	issue9548 messages
2010-08-10 09:32:46	pitrou	create