Brett Cannon schrieb: > I just discovered frozen packages set their __path__ simply to their > name and not to a list as expected (http://bugs.python.org/issue4211). > This made me think about the 'path' argument to find_module() and > whether it can be treated as simply a hint or should always be > seriously looked at. > > Take frozen modules, for instance. If the 'path' argument is meant to > always be considered then if a frozen module is within a package a > check should be done to make sure that the parent package is in 'path' > somewhere. But if it is simply a hint, then 'path' should be ignored > and whether the module can be found should depend fully on > imp.is_frozen(). > > So, what do people think? Should 'path' for find_module() always be > taken into consideration, or only when it happens to be convenient?
At the moment I don't care about find_module for frozen modules/packages (is someone still using these?), but all the code I remember that manipulates a packages __path__ would most certainly break if it finds a string instead of a list. Thomas _______________________________________________ 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
