[Python-Dev] importlib is now bootstrapped (and what that means) (original) (raw)

Eric V. Smith eric at trueblade.com
Fri Apr 20 15:54:28 CEST 2012


On 04/14/2012 02:12 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:

My multi-year project -- started in 2006 according to my blog -- to rewrite import in pure Python and then bootstrap it into CPython as the implementation of import() is finally over (mostly)!

Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems that I need to run importlib._bootstrap._install(sys, _imp) manually in order to make import be importlib's version. Is that not supposed to happen automatically?

Eric.



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