[Python-Dev] PEP 273 - Import from Zip Archives (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:12:44 +0100

Thomas Heller wrote:

From: "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> > Thomas Heller wrote: > > Wouldn't it be the right time now, instead of complicating > > the builtin import mechanism further, to simplify the builtin > > import code, and use it as the foundation of a Python coded > > implementation - imputil, or better Gordon's iu.py, or whatever? > > This would be nice to have, but how do you bootstrap the > importer if it's written in Python ? > Have you looked at imputil? It bootstraps itself only from builtin modules (which may be the only mechanism to be in the core).

Sure, but for finding imputil itself you still need the C import mechanism. Even worse: if Python can't find imputil (for some reason), it would be completely broken.

My only gripe with the existing C implementation is that I would like to have more hooks available. Currently, you have to replace the complete API in order to add new features -- not exactly OO :-/

BTW, how is progress on the ZIP import patch doing ? Perhaps Jim should just check in what he has so that the code gets a little more code review...

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