On 3/7/07, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mar 7, 2007, at 4:36 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: > > >> >> Third party package renaming is also supported, via several public > >> >> interfaces accessible by any Python module. > >> >> > >> > > >> > I guess a .pth file could install the mappings for the third-party > >> > modules. > >> > >> How would that work? .pth files don't execute arbitrary Python code, > > > > It does through imports, though. > > I think it's important to import on demand only though.
And I agree. > I should > probably make that clear in the PEP <wink>. IOW, "import email" > should not by side-effect import all sub-modules just because there's > a remapping involved. This actually would be quite easy to do, but > it's one of the reasons why the Python 2.5 email package hack goes > through so much trouble. > I am not suggesting that every rename be imported. All I am saying is that a .pth file could ``import pkg.old_names`` and that old_names module adds the mappings, that's all. It doesn't do anything that you are not proposing be done automatically. -Brett _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
