[Python-Dev] Fix import errors to have data (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Jul 28 22:44:28 CEST 2004

And for those very large projects, I'm wondering if what is really wanted is actually to be able to isolate plug-ins or extensions into their own "module space", similar to the way the Java "classloader" hierarchy works. [...]

You can certainly build all that using import hooks. But perhaps that's too low a level, and a higher-level infrastructure would be helpful? Import hooks have been around for ages and many improvements have been proposed but few of those have actually found much use (or even found to be real improvements).

So perhaps some interested parties (count me out for lack of time :-( ) should get together and design something, learning from Java?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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