If the point is just to be able to test the existing API better, no PEP is needed, right? It would be an unsupported, undocumented API.
On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 7:22 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7 December 2017 at 12:46, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > > So you're okay with putting this off till (at least) 3.8? That sounds > good > > to me, given that I'd like to go on vacation soon. > > Eric reminded me off-list that we'd like to at least add the lower > level _interpreters API for the benefit of the test suite - right now, > all of our subinterpreter testing needs to be run through either > test_embed or test_capi, which is annoying enough that we end up > simply not testing the subinterpreter functionality properly (in > practice, we're relying heavily on the regression test suites for > mod_wsgi and JEP to find any problems we inadvertently introduce when > refactoring CPython's internals). > > If we were to put that under test.support._interpreters for 3.7, we'd > be able to make it clear that we're in "Even more experimental than > provisional API status would account for" territory, while still > enabling the improved testing and accessibility for experimentation > that we're after in order to make some better informed API design > proposals for Python 3.8. > > Regards, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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