[Python-Dev] zipimport._zip_directory_cache interface (original) (raw)

Maciej Fijalkowski fijall at gmail.com
Mon May 26 19:46:41 CEST 2008


_zip_directory_cache is a cache for modules imported by zipimporter. It's a normal dictionary exposing gory details of zipimport implementation. It wouldn't be a bad thing on it's own, but pkgutil.py uses this knowledge, while _zip_directory_cache has no single test nor documentation (besides info in docstring). It's a bit of a pain to actually implement this in other python implementations (especially that cache can be internal and exposed differently). I think it should be either specified better (and stripped from _) or zipimport should expose some nicer interface to it's cache. What do you think?

Cheers, fijal



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