Message 353311 - Python tracker

Message353311

Author	vstinner
Recipients	eric.snow, mathias, ncoghlan, ronaldoussoren, vstinner
Date	2019-09-26.14:47:00
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My plan is not to change the default implementation to calculate the path configuration, but make it easier to customize the path configuration. One idea is to rewrite Modules/getpath.c and PC/getpathp.c in Python and convert it to a frozen module. It is easier to modify Python code than C code. In the past, we already did such change for importlib (which also has a frozen part, importlib._bootstrap and importlib._bootstrap_external). The PEP 587 implementation moves towards that with the "Multi-Phase Initialization Private Provisional API": https://docs.python.org/dev/c-api/init_config.html#multi-phase-initialization-private-provisional-api

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My plan is not to change the default implementation to calculate the path configuration, but make it easier to customize the path configuration.

One idea is to rewrite Modules/getpath.c and PC/getpathp.c in Python and convert it to a frozen module. It is easier to modify Python code than C code. In the past, we already did such change for importlib (which also has a frozen part, importlib._bootstrap and importlib._bootstrap_external).

The PEP 587 implementation moves towards that with the "Multi-Phase Initialization Private Provisional API":
https://docs.python.org/dev/c-api/init_config.html#multi-phase-initialization-private-provisional-api

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Date	User	Action	Args
2019-09-26 14:47:00	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, ronaldoussoren, ncoghlan, eric.snow, mathias
2019-09-26 14:47:00	vstinner	set	messageid: <1569509220.39.0.108355182705.issue18309@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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2019-09-26 14:47:00	vstinner	create