Michael Felt <aixto...@felt.demon.nl> added the comment:
Thank you Ned. Not a justification perhaps, but a way to specify that it is support. Three+ years ago when I first worked on something for Lib/ctypes to get find_library() et al working for AIX I was also asked to add it as _aix.py similar to the macos support (with, iirc is more than just a single file) being separate from util.py. To me, it just seemed that is the way it is done to keep maintenance of the core (external) code cleaner. After I post the PR I welcome your perspective on the sense or nonsense of having a separate _xxx_support.py file (where _xxx could be any platform, not merely osx or aix. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue38021> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
