[Python-Dev] Exposing pkguitl's import emulation (was Re: [Python-checkins] r85538 (original) (raw)

[Python-Dev] Exposing pkguitl's import emulation (was Re: [Python-checkins] r85538 - python/branches/py3k/Doc/library/pkgutil.rst)

P.J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Tue Oct 19 17:24:59 CEST 2010

At 08:03 AM 10/18/2010 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:

I'm a little dubious about exposing these officially. They're mainly a hack to get some parts of the standard library working (e.g. runpy) in the absence of full PEP 302 support in the imp module, not really something we want to encourage anyone else to use (and yes, they should probably have underscores in their names, but we missed that when the various private implementations scattered around the stdlib were consolidated in pkgutil).

Well, my intention at least was that they should be documented and released; it's the documenting part I didn't get around to. ;-)

Of course, this was also pre-importlib; were we starting the work today, the obvious thing to do would be to expose the Python implementations of the relevant objects.

That said, who knows when we'll actually have it done right, so in the meantime maybe having an official workaround is better than nothing...

Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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