[Python-Dev] Proto-PEP regarding writing bytecode files (original) (raw)

Moore, Paul Paul.Moore@atosorigin.com
Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:53:25 -0000

From: Skip Montanaro [mailto:skip@pobox.com]

At any rate, I believe I incorporated everybody's suggestions (thanks for the feedback) and checked it in as pop-0304 (the number David Goodger assigned me). You can now grab it from CVS or view it online at

= http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/python/python/nondist/peps= /pep-0304.txt More feedback is welcome. Once the uproar^H^H^H^H^H^Hfeedback dies down a bit, I will look at implementing the idea.

Reading this, it seems to me that this could probably be implemented by an import hook. Just's plan is to expose the (currently internal) filesystem module loading code as a hook for 2.3a2. If you discuss this with him, I'd imagine that it would be possible to

a) Ensure that however it gets exposed, it has enough customisability to allow you to implement this feature b) Actually implement this feature as an import hook, which could then be loaded by people who need it, and ignored by people (like me) who don't care.

The PEP still needs an entry in the Issues section for import hooks. For now, just putting "Not clear how this interacts with import hooks" should be enough...

Paul.