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On Sun, 5 Aug 2018 at 18:10, Brett Cannon <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
> One other thing I will say is that the PEP 302 APIs were seemingly designed
> for working with Python source and were not necessarily oriented towards
> alternative code representations that were executed, e.g. Quixote was
> supported because it transpiled to Python source (although Paul is a
> co-author on the PEP and could more definitively answer 😄). IOW the APIs
> are oriented towards the Python programming language, not the CPython
> interpreter. This is why, for instance, I'm suggesting that if a more
> general solution is desired to be made official, then trying to force
> everything into the current APIs might not turn out well
That's how I recall it. The only cases we really considered were Python
modules (source code plus pyc) and extension modules (no source, loader
should return None).
Paul |
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