Josiah Carlson wrote:
Hear, hear. If you'd like a working database import module to play with I can oblige, thanks to the assistance of many willing hands.Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
The import arena is full of obsolete hooks and other cruft and, while I can't help feeling that it would benefit from a complete redefinition I suspect that breakage-avoidance might require that waits until 3.0.
regards Steve
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