Do we really have to optimize the metadata for runtime parsing, or can we have a distlib-specific indexing operation triggered by the installer?
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Donald Stufft <donald <at> stufft.io> writes: > >> And here is where I wish JSON had a link type so that this data could >> either be inlined, or a link to the externalized data could be included. > > While raw JSON does not include a link type, this needn't be a problem in > practice. For example, distlib already contains mechanisms which support > cross-references and references to external data, as per the example code in > [1]. I will shortly be adding to this a mechanism to integrate data in > external files in a standardised way. > > The distlib code is an extension of the mechanisms already in the stdlib in > logging.config and used by dictConfig, which are documented at [2]. > > Regards, > > Vinay Sajip > > [1] https://gist.github.com/vsajip/5473612 > [2] > http://docs.python.org/2/library/logging.config.html#access-to-internal-objects > > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
