[Ian Bicking wrote]
Vaguely off-topic, but I figured someone here might know...
Anyway, I want to provide backported stdlib modules to older versions of Python. Most of these are trivial to backport, so it's just a matter of accumulating them in one place.
Is it important in your use case to magically stick them in the same place as the standard locations? I remember a few people mentioning that they have their own "compat" (or "compat23", ...) modules kicking around. It might be nice to have a collective "compat" or "backported" package out there, then users could explicitly: try: from compat import tempfile except ImportError: import tempfile Dunno if that matches up with what you wanted to do.
Thoughts?
An import hook that does the magic? Trent -- Trent Mick TrentM@ActiveState.com