Issue 14594: document imp.load_dynamic() - Python tracker (original) (raw)

Created on 2012-04-16 11:44 by scoder, last changed 2022-04-11 14:57 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (6)
msg158412 - (view)	Author: Stefan Behnel (scoder) *	Date: 2012-04-16 11:44
The imp.load_dynamic() function is used by third party code (e.g. Cython's pyximport) but is not currently documented. http://docs.python.org/dev/library/imp.html The latest changes to the import mechanism suggest that it should better be documented to give a hint that users can rely on it.
msg158439 - (view)	Author: R. David Murray (r.david.murray) *	Date: 2012-04-16 13:17
This is essentially a duplicate of issue 14551, but perhaps with a bit more weight behind it.
msg158440 - (view)	Author: Antoine Pitrou (pitrou) *	Date: 2012-04-16 13:21
Ok, let's redocument them, then :)
msg158457 - (view)	Author: R. David Murray (r.david.murray) *	Date: 2012-04-16 14:22
Yeah, they really need to be documented in order for us to document them as deprecated if we decide we really want to remove them later. "Obsolete" is not, I think, the same as "deprecated".
msg158471 - (view)	Author: Brett Cannon (brett.cannon) *	Date: 2012-04-16 15:41
I'm fine w/ documenting load_dynamic() and leaving it as-is since importlib uses the function itself (plus the frozen/builtin functions, although the frozen stuff might be simplified since they can probably just return the bytes for the frozen module instead of doing as much work in C code). But load_package(), load_source(), and load_module() need to go.
msg272069 - (view)	Author: Berker Peksag (berker.peksag) *	Date: 2016-08-05 22:55
The imp module has been deprecated long time ago and the importlib module itself doesn't it anymore. However, Cython still use it: https://github.com/cython/cython/blob/master/pyximport/pyximport.py#L217 I'm inclined to close this as 'out of date' but feel free to reopen it :)