On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > It is because the file has a controversial coding style, with up to 25 > lines of whitespace between classes, and includes functionality for > eggs and some other stuff that was unwanted on top of the resources > stuff that partly made its way into pkgutil.
I don't see why that couldn't be fixed though. As it is, almost every time I make a patch to distribute I clean things up a bit, in part because I have vim configured by default to run autopep8 and some other scripts on every Python file I open so I don't have to look at *quite* as much ugly code (this has proven very useful at work). > I am really impressed with the file after seeing how easy it was to > add PEP-345 and PEP-376 support to pkg_resources.py without having to > present a different API to the user, and seeing how it provides a lot > of what an installer needs especially being able to iterate over all > the distributions in a particular folder, but I am glad it is not in > the stdlib because I wouldn't have been able to do that if it was. Yes--I frequently have found myself wishing pkg_resources' availability could be assumed. Especially for getting handles to non-code resources, and for things like get_distribution(). Erik _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
