I've been building Python 3.8 pre-alphas and alphas for a while now, and ran into a weird problem. Not sure if this is significant or not, and hoping to get other people's views.
It seems that the value of sys.implementation.cache_tag changed from "cpython-38m" to just "cpython-38" at some point. That means that a statement like "import lzo" will no longer find a file called "lzo.cpython-38m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so", which I had had prior to the change. The trouble is, pip *did* recognize that file, and said that the python-lzo package was still installed. Solution: "pip uninstall python-lzo" and then reinstall it. Now it's created "lzo.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so" and all is well. Does anyone else know about how pip detects existing files, and whether it could be brought more in sync with the import machinery? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
