[Python-Dev] Python Language Summit at PyCon: Agenda

[Nick Coghlan]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On Feb 27, 2013, at 11:33 AM, fwierzbicki at gmail.com wrote:
>>The easy part for Jython is pushing some of our "if is_jython:" stuff
>>into the appropriate spots in CPython's Lib/.
>
> I wonder if there isn't a better way to do this than sprinkling is_jython,
> is_pypy, is_ironpython, is_thenextbigthing all over the code base.  I have no
> bright ideas here, but it seems like a feature matrix would be a better way to
> go than something that assumes a particular Python implementation has a
> particular feature set (which may change in the future).

Yes, avoiding that kind of thing is a key motivation for
sys.implementation. Any proposal for "is_jython" blocks should instead
be reformulated as a proposal for new sys.implementation attributes.

Cheers,
Nick.

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