[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

2014-07-25 Thread Python tracker
ACTIVITY SUMMARY (2014-07-18 - 2014-07-25) Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/ To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue. Do NOT respond to this message. Issues counts and deltas: open4591 ( +2) closed 29248 (+60) total 33839 (+62) Open issues wit

Re: [Python-Dev] Does Zip Importer have to be Special?

2014-07-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 25 July 2014 19:33, Phil Thompson wrote: > On 24/07/2014 9:42 pm, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> As you say, though it's a niche problem compared to something like >> packaging, which is why it got bumped down my personal priority list. I >> haven't even got back to the first preparatory step I identif

Re: [Python-Dev] Does Zip Importer have to be Special?

2014-07-25 Thread Phil Thompson
On 24/07/2014 7:26 pm, Brett Cannon wrote: On Thu Jul 24 2014 at 2:12:20 PM, Phil Thompson wrote: On 24/07/2014 6:48 pm, Brett Cannon wrote: > IOW allowing for easy patching of Python is probably the best option I > can > think of. Would tweaking importlib._bootstrap._install() to accept > sp

Re: [Python-Dev] Does Zip Importer have to be Special?

2014-07-25 Thread Phil Thompson
On 24/07/2014 9:42 pm, Nick Coghlan wrote: On 25 Jul 2014 03:51, "Brett Cannon" wrote: The problem with all of this is you are essentially asking for a hook to let you have code have access to the interpreter state before it is fully initialized. Zipimport and the various bits of code that ge