[Python-Dev] New and Improved Import Hooks (original) (raw)

Just van Rossum just@letterror.com
Wed, 4 Dec 2002 23:49:30 +0100

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

FWIW, I've done lots of stuff that scans sys.path directories for various purposes. It would probably be a good idea to use a string subclass for the zip importer, but I don't think we need to make stringness an absolute requirement.

+1

Let's make it really easy to use zip archives, and reasonably easy to use other custom importers.

+1

Just