On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 19:07:38 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > I know the recent Pythons give a lot of import power to the script. But > maybe I'm just asking too much, and some of this stuff really is magical > and implemented in C?
That was the case up to 3.3, but Python 3.4 has the import machinery re- written in pure Python (except for a tiny bit of bootstrapping machinery, if I understand correctly). I understand that nobody understood the import machinery in full (although there were a couple of people who understood most of it), and that moving it to Python was a Herculean job. If I remember correctly, it uncovered a number of undetected bugs and dark corners with unspecified behaviour. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
