On 24/11/2013 14:15, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
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.
The import mechanism was rewritten in 3.3 see http://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.3.html#importlib. PEP 451 also does work on the import mechanism http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0451/ This is in 3.4, see http://bugs.python.org/issue18864 and a rather long list of associated issues.
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