Issue 616247: More documentation for the imp module (original) (raw)

Created on 2002-09-29 19:58 by jhorneman, last changed 2022-04-10 16:05 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (4)
msg53633 - (view)	Author: Jurie Horneman (jhorneman)	Date: 2002-09-29 19:58
Not all of the public functions of the imp module appear to be documented (in section 3.21, Python version 2.2). get_frozen_object load_package PY_CODERESOURCE are not documented. Also, the documentation for load_module() can be a bit confusing, partially due to inconsistent use of the word pairs 'tuple' / 'triple' and 'pathname' / 'filename'. (I did not need the abovementioned public functions, but while struggling with this module I noticed them and wondered if the documentation was outdated, or whether they held the key to my success.)
msg53634 - (view)	Author: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger) *	Date: 2003-07-12 04:14
Logged In: YES user_id=80475 I believe both functions are obsolete and are subsumed by load_module() and find_module(). I don't know about Py_CODERESOURCE (it is MacIntosh specific). Referring to jvr for disposition on the first two and then to Jack for the third.
msg60141 - (view)	Author: Facundo Batista (facundobatista) *	Date: 2008-01-19 10:43
If those two are obsolete, we may add a DeprecationWarning in 2.6 and hide/remove them in 2.7. What do you think?
msg85170 - (view)	Author: Brett Cannon (brett.cannon) *	Date: 2009-04-02 05:43
As Raymond pointed out, people should not use the undocumented functions. Deprecation should be a separate issue.