Re: [PATCH 0/1] Adjust odd Python bindings

[Elliott Mitchell <ehem+xen@m5p.com>]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 03:17:23AM +0200, Marek Marczykowski-G??recki wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 07:31:26AM -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> > I'm unsure how widely the Python bindings are used.  Certainly they were
> > used for PyGRUB.  Have any other projects used them so far?  What I'm
> > doing is likely to be contributed to the Xen Project, and I suspect the
> > existence of other projects would be known...
> 
> Yes, Python bindings are used outside of xen.git. I'm aware of few
> places in Qubes OS, but I expect there are other users too. So, I'm
> afraid breaking the current import method isn't really an option. What
> you could try, is to make both versions work at the same time, but TBH
> I'm not sure how to do that with C extension.

Simplest would have been to address this in 2004, when the Python
bindings had insignificant usage.  Another handy time when things could
have been broken was the Python 2->3 transition.  Yet now both of those
points have passed.

I suspect this could be done by adding some Python code to an __init__.py
file.  Simply redirect attempts to load the old path to the new path.

Other thing I noted is the Python documentation indicates the first
argument to Extension() was wrong.


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