Hi Alan,
> That depends on whether you can foresee a use for importlib in > your code. Slightly disagreeing here. I think reading importlib source is a great way of understanding how the python import system works (if you don't want to read C, that is). I think a learnt a lot and it helped me to understand some frustrating errors I encountered in my day to day programming, for example regarding module reloading (e.g. using autoreload in ipython). I was more wondering if the example I pointed out was really contrived or if this inconsistency in behavior could be an issue to fix. > "Did I really spend a week of my > life investigating importlib?" > To quote Ella Fitzgerald: "It's ain't what you do, it's the wat that you do it" ;) FWIW In 20 years of using Python I've never used > importlib in any of my real-world programs... > I'm sure somebody has, but not me. So I'd spend > my time investigating modules I may actually > use, like itertools, functools, threading, > multiprocessing or asyncio... Life's too short! > Definitely so much to learn... Thanks! Quentin _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
