On 02 December 2002, Just van Rossum said:
> I've been doing some thinking about the import mechanism, too, and my
> current gripe is about the __import__ hook: I find it utterly useless
> that the implementer of the hook is supposed to deal with
> sys.modules. What I wish for is a hook that only gets invoked if the
> module isn't already in sys.modules.
I can see where you're coming from, but one disadvantage to your scheme
is that it would not be possible to override .py/.pyc/.pyo files -- they
would always be imported in preference to any other scheme. This could
well be a feature. ;-)
Greg
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