At 11:45 18/12/98 +1100, Mark Hammond wrote:

WHAT WE WANT ============

What we'd like I'll try to describe top-down (hopefully better to understand than bottom-up).

importing a module becomes something like

for pathentry in sys.path: finder = getfinder(pathentry) loader = finder.find(module) module = loader() getfinder() is something like if not path_to_finder.has_key(pathentry): for f in all_finder_types: finder = f.create_finder(pathentry) if finder: path_to_finder[pathentry] = finder break return path_to_finder[pathentry]

I think this is excellent! But I'm not clear on how every kind of finder can be created for every path. [Also, it should be possible to flush the cache] ------------------------------------------------------- John Skaller email: skaller@maxtal.com.au http://www.maxtal.com.au/~skaller phone: 61-2-96600850 snail: 10/1 Toxteth Rd, Glebe NSW 2037, Australia