Next thing you know we end up with a new setup.py, with imports, PYTHONPATH hacking et al ;-)
> On May 9, 2016, at 7:34 PM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > > I just found this on StackOverflow: > > http://stackoverflow.com/a/648487/208880 > > tl;dr > ----- > > > Recently I was working upon a project and I realised that I wanted to > > have conditionals inside my configuration file [...] > > > > I didn't want to write a mini-language, because unless I did it very > > carefully I couldn't allow the flexibility that would be useful. > > > > Instead I decided that I'd have two forms: If the file started with > > "#!" and was executable I'd parse the result of running it; otherwise > > I'd read it as-is > > That approach seems like a win-win: the plain-vanilla static file can be > promoted as best-practice, yet we have a fall-back for the complicated and > edge cases. > > -- > ~Ethan~ > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
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