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Fri Feb 25 01:12:34 CET 2005 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-February/051779.html

Guido van Rossum <gvanrossum at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> [Josiah Carlson]
> > > if we could change import in such a
> > > way that made standard library imports different from standard library
> > > imports, we could
> 
> [Greg Ewing]
> > ...go on to prove that black is white and get
> > ourselves killed by a python on the next
> > zebra crossing.
> 
> [Guido van Rossum]
> I was hoping that Josiah would find out for himself while doing the
> assigned homework of writing an implementation, saving him the effort
> of writing a PEP. :-)

Gah that should have been "... in such a way that made standard library
imports different from user module/package imports ...".

I started on the implementation, and now know why PEP 328 probably
wasn't implemented in time for 2.4; import hooks can be ugly.

 - Josiah

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[Python-Dev] Comment regarding PEP 328