bug#29856: [PATCH core-updates] guix: python-build-system:, Modify ".py" files in-place.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> writes:
>
> On Tue, 2 Jan 2018 17:13:15 +0100
> Hartmut Goebel <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>   * it kills "from __future__ import", which must be the first import
>>     statement (or even the first statement after any doc-string) to work.
>
> ... oops.
>
>> Thus I suggest aiming to implement the solution discussed in that thread
>> (see esp.
>> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-11/msg00041.html>.
>
> I like that approach. Nice...
>
>> Beside of this, the patch suffers from some more issues. Sorry to say :-(
>> 
>>   * When converting PYTHONPATH into a list of python strings, these need
>>     to be quoted properly.
>
> I agree.
>
>>   * The description (commit-message) of the patch is much to terse. It
>>     should describe the the reason and implications. Esp. it should
>>     describe the case this is fixing.
>
> Sure.

I’m closing this in favour of #29951.

Thanks!