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Title: Make site.py more friendly to PDAs
Type: Stage:
Components: Library (Lib) Versions: Python 2.3
process
Status: closed Resolution: rejected
Dependencies: Superseder:
Assigned To: Nosy List: loewis, mwh, philthompson
Priority: normal Keywords: patch

Created on 2001-12-21 00:37 by philthompson, last changed 2022-04-10 16:04 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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Messages (3)
msg38555 - (view) Author: Phil Thompson (philthompson) Date: 2001-12-21 00:37 
site.py requires distutils and pydoc which are both
unfriendly to devices with little memory like PDAs.

This patch makes site.py cope with distutils and pydoc
not being installed.
msg38556 - (view) Author: Michael Hudson (mwh) (Python committer) Date: 2002-01-17 18:01 
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Hmm.  Semi-approve of the pydoc change.  The distutils
change seems pointless though -- you're not likely to build
Python on a PDA anytime soon, are you?  Or are folders call
Modules/ very common on PDAs?
msg38557 - (view) Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) * (Python committer) Date: 2002-08-12 09:08 
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I like the pydoc half less: the problem only happens if you
actually invoke help, and invoking it without this patch
produces an exception that should give a clear indication of
what the problem is.

So I reject the entire patch; if you want formal support for
a subsetted Python, you should probably write a
Python-for-PDA PEP which defines the subset clearly.
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