On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 5:42 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > Not sure whether you already have this: supporting the tarfile module > would be nice.
Yes, got that - issue 5689. Also of interest is issue 5411 - adding .xz support to distutils. But I think that these are separate projects that should wait until the lzma module is finalized. On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 01:36:50 +1000 > Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> PEP 399 also comes into play - we need a pure Python version for PyPy >> et al (or a plausible story for why an exception should be granted). > > The plausible story being that we basically wrap an existing library? > I don't think PyPy et al have pure Python versions of the zlib or > OpenSSL, do they? > > If we start taking PEP 399 conformance to such levels, we might as well > stop developing CPython. Indeed, PEP 399 specifically notes that exemptions can be granted for modules that wrap external C libraries. On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's acceptable for the Python version to use ctypes in the case of > wrapping an existing library, but the Python version should still > exist. I'm not too sure about that - PEP 399 explicitly says that using ctypes is frowned upon, and doesn't mention anywhere that it should be used in this sort of situation. Cheers, Nadeem _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
