[Python-Dev] Getting importlib into the standard library for 3.1 (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Thu Jan 8 23:40:35 CET 2009

2009/1/8 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:

Well, it's not part of the interpreter yet. That can be viewed as a separate step. True, but what you're doing here can be viewed as the continuation of the original implementation plan for PEP 302 - it was always intended that every module would eventually get a loader attribute, and that's one of the things an import system based on your importlib would provide.

FWIW, this is certainly the ultimate direction I intended PEP 302 to take. At the time the key deliverable (which was provided by Just) was the zip importer - but we intended the mechanism to be applicable for everything, and ultimately to be used for eveything. Sadly, neither Just nor I ever took that extra step - and I'm extremely happy that Brett has now done so.

Paul.

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