Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > I said "warn about the use of non-builtin modules", not disallow > their use. AFAIK, the purpose of the exercise is to reduce the > number of non-builtin modules being loaded early on during > Python startup.
The purpose of the exercise is to avoid, as much as possible, the numerous issues that have already been encountered because of the startup procedure relying on locale in various conditions for initialization of the standard streams. You are proposing that we commit a one-time fix to fix the current situation. Recent history shows that similar problems will arise again, and waste useful developer time for committing urgency fixes in order to fix the build (not to mention that the symptoms are sometimes difficult to diagnose, such as in this very issue). I am proposing a broader change which prevents, as much as possible, similar problems from reappearing and will relieve us from a dispensable burden. > > (note, this is already done elsewhere, for example _abcoll.py or > > _weakrefset.py) > > Those are special cases since they are needed for ABCs. locale > is not special enough to warrant such a disruption in module > organization and it's not needed either (see above). "special enough" is in the eye of the beholder. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9548> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
