Travis Oliphant wrote: > Robert Kern wrote: >> Josh Marshall wrote: >> >>> so it seems like the entire purpose of PackageLoader is to make life >>> difficult for me, just to save a few lines of typing. :) Seriously, >>> can a numpy developer tell me why PackageLoader is necessary? >>> >> I can't think of a good reason why it's used in __init__.py the way it is >> (it >> used to have postpone=True). If Pearu, who wrote that bit of code, doesn't >> speak >> up by Thursday, I'll have it removed in favor of regular imports for the >> beta. >> > This will probably help with ticket #145 as well. A user of > ActiveState's Komodo on Windows gets a program crash which started when > the PackageLoader started getting used in 0.9.4 > > AFAIK, The two main purposes of the package loader are docstring > manipulation and postponing imports. Right now, it's probably only the > docstring portion of the code that is really being used.
There's also the configurable verbosity and hiding of ImportErrors. Admittedly, I dislike both of those. Currently, I don't think any of these features are worth messing with something as fundamental as importing. Especially not in __init__.py . It always works out to introduce fragility in something that needs to be rock-solid. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/numpy-discussion
