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Fri Oct 25 08:44:35 CEST 2013 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-October/129857.html

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 6:01 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24 October 2013 16:05, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com> wrote:
>> * I've asserted that there shouldn't be much difficulty in adjusting
>> pkgutil and other modules to work with ModuleSpec.
>
> More specifically: importlib finders will still expose the previous
> import plugin API for backwards compatibility, so the worst case
> scenario is that we miss something and there's an API somewhere that
> doesn't accept import plugins that only provide the new API and not
> the old one.
>
> However, the PEP should explicitly state that any such omissions will
> be treated as bugs in the 3.4.x series (although we'll aim to handle
> them all in the initial implementation).

Good point.  I'll add that.

>
> Thanks for recording the details of the earlier off-list discussion :)

:)

-eric

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