Looks like Nick is on the losing side here, but we shall see. On Aug 25, 2017 8:28 PM, "Greg Ewing" <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Oh, BDFL, will you settle whether we should raise an exception or return > Notimplemented? > > On Aug 25, 2017 8:28 PM, "Greg Ewing" <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > > xoviat wrote: > >> I mean how is opening a file different than attempting to build an sdist? >> > > 1. Opening a file is a very common operation. > > 2. Most file opens are expected to succeed, and if one doesn't, > the appropriate place to deal with that is almost never at the > site of the open call, but somewhere further up. > > In contrast, there's probably only about one place in any > given frontend where the backend's build_sdist method gets > invoked, and it's unlikely the ability to let a not-implemented > exception bubble up from that point would be of great use. > > > -- > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > > >
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