On 03/12/2014 06:12 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:18:17PM -0700, Josh Stone wrote: >> Do we have any packaging requirements or guidelines for python modules >> to behave nicely with pydoc? I've seen this break a number of times, >> and sometimes the bugs I've filed have been fixed, sometimes ignored. >> Before I go through another round, I'd like to know if we have (or >> should have) some official policy on this. >> > We don't currently have any official guidelines on this. > > I know that pydoc can be broken. Because of how it works I'm not certain > that we can fix it and keep it fixed. > >> AIUI, pydoc works by importing the named module, then displaying its >> docstrings. Then "pydoc -k" does this for all modules in sys.path, >> looking for the specified keyword. A problem then arises if something >> in the path does protect itself with 'if __name__ == "__main__":' to >> know when it's acting as a module or a script. (And if some module >> really doesn't want to support normal importing, it should not be >> installed in the path!) >> > There's also packages that need a non-default version of a dependency in > order to work. We've worked out ways to do this so that the module can be > imported when we use them in an application but it will probably break with > the way pydoc -k works. > > setuptools entrypoints can break unrelated code. It's probably another way > that pydoc -k could be broken. > > [..] >> >> Of course, these are just the first exceptions I hit. Experience shows >> that fixing these will likely find more behind them. >> > Yeah, I think there's a never ending treadmill here.
Alright, I'll try not to let it bother me then. Thanks for your input. Josh -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
