New submission from Thomas Kluyver: We noticed the other day that distutils, despite being part of the standard library, checks the version of Python it's running under and has some different code paths - one of which is only taken for Python < 2.2.
We haven't managed to figure out why this is necessary. So this issue is partly a patch and partly a question: is there a reason that distutils can't assume it's run on the version of Python it came with? If so, I'm happy to make a new patch adding a comment to explain that. If not, I'll go looking for other places where it has unnecessary checks, and we can clean up one little corner of wtf. ---------- components: Distutils files: rm-distutils-version-check.patch keywords: patch messages: 225320 nosy: dstufft, eric.araujo, takluyver priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Remove distutils checks for Python version Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file36372/rm-distutils-version-check.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22200> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
