Phillip M. Feldman added the comment:
My apologies for the tone of my remark. I am grateful to you and others
who donate their time to develop the code.
I'm attaching the wrapper code that I created to work around the problem.
Phillip
def expander(paths='./*'):
"""
OVERVIEW
This
Brett Cannon added the comment:
Saying "the available functionality is massively inefficient" is unnecessarily
hostile towards those of us who actually wrote and maintain that code. Without
diving into the code, chances are that requirement is there so that the C code
can use macros to
Phillip M. Feldman added the comment:
It appears that the `importlib` package has the same issue: One can't
provide an iterator for the path. When searching a large folder tree for
an item that is likely to be found early in the search process (i.e., at a
high level in the folder tree), the
Eric Snow added the comment:
There are several issues at hand here, Phillip. I'll enumerate them below.
Thanks for taking the time to let us know about this. However, I'm closing
this issue since realistically the behavior of imp.find_module() isn't going to
change, particularly in Python
New submission from Phillip M. Feldman :
`imp.find_module` goes down in flames if one tries to pass an iterator rather
than a list of folders. Firstly, the message that it produces is somewhat
misleading:
RuntimeError: sys.path must be a list of directory names
Secondly, it would be
