[Python-Dev] python3k : imp.find_module raises SyntaxError (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Dec 1 02:19:52 CET 2010

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Ron Adam <rrr at ronadam.com> wrote:

* It almost seems like the concept of a sub-module (in a package) is flawed.  I'm not sure I can explain what causes me to feel that way at the moment though.

It isn't flawed, it is just a lot more complicated than most people realise (cf. PEP 302).

In this case, the signature of find_module (returning an already open file) is unfortunate, but probably necessary given the way the import internals currently work. As Brett says, returning a loader would be preferable, but the builtin import machinery doesn't have proper loaders defined (and won't until we manage to get to the point where importlib is the import machinery).

Cheers, Nick.

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

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