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

Just van Rossum just@letterror.com
Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:13:10 +0100

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

the internal import architecture does things in two steps, for some reason. this is also reflected in the public "imp" module interface:

http://www.python.org/doc/2.2.2/lib/module-imp.html I'm not sure how Just's patch interacts with "imp", so maybe this is a non-issue.

The patch doesn't yet, but that's only to keep the patch small for initial review purposes. I have some thoughts about how it could interact with imp, but that needs more thought. The whole find/load separation is still in tact, and is reflected in the zipimport.zipimporter object: it has a find_module() and a load_module() method. I'm not sure if the two-step approach is a big enough deal to keep it in a new import scheme.

Just