On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:15, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 22:47, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote > > [SNIP] > > >> The fact that we have an undocumented PEP 302 based reimplementation >> of imports squirrelled away in pkgutil to make pkgutil and runpy work >> is sheer insanity (replacing *that* with importlib might actually be a >> good first step towards full integration). >> > > It easily goes beyond runpy. You could ditch much of imp's C code (e.g. > load_module()), you could write py_compile and compileall using importlib, > you could rewrite zipimport, etc. Anything that touches import could be > refactored to (a) use just Python code, and (b) reshare code so as to not > re-invent the wheel constantly. > And taking it even farther, all of the blackbox aspects of import go away. For instance, the implicit, hidden importers for built-in modules, frozen modules, extensions, and source could actually be set on sys.path_hooks. The Meta path importer that handles sys.path could actually exist on sys.meta_path. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20120208/cde68be8/attachment.html>
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