Nick Coghlan added the comment: Further thoughts:
1. Let's keep Finder as a generic base class for "things which find module loaders", with its current implementation but an updated docstring and documentation. 2. The reason both the MetaPathFinder and PathEntryHander ABCs need to preserve the Finder API for find_module is for backwards compatibility with third party reimplementations of the PEP 302 protocol. 3. importlib changes: - add MetaPathFinder and PathEntryHandler - inherit from MetaPathFinder or PathEntryHandler as appropriate (instead of directly from Finder) - rename FileFinder to DirectoryHandler (keeping the former as a legacy alias) 4. Longer term, we should deprecate find_module() completely, and add a meta-path appropriate find_loader(fullname, path) definition that allows multiple meta path finders to contribute to a namespace package. Finder would effectively become an empty categorisation ABC. This plan should be elaborated in a PEP for 3.4 ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15502> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
