[issue14594] document imp.load_dynamic()
New submission from Stefan Behnel <scoder@users.sourceforge.net>: The imp.load_dynamic() function is used by third party code (e.g. Cython's pyximport) but is not currently documented. http://docs.python.org/dev/library/imp.html The latest changes to the import mechanism suggest that it should better be documented to give a hint that users can rely on it. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 158412 nosy: docs@python, scoder priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: document imp.load_dynamic() type: behavior versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14594> _______________________________________
R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> added the comment: This is essentially a duplicate of issue 14551, but perhaps with a bit more weight behind it. ---------- nosy: +brett.cannon, pitrou, r.david.murray versions: -Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14594> _______________________________________
Antoine Pitrou <pitrou@free.fr> added the comment: Ok, let's redocument them, then :) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14594> _______________________________________
R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> added the comment: Yeah, they really need to be documented in order for us to document them as deprecated if we decide we really want to remove them later. "Obsolete" is not, I think, the same as "deprecated". ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14594> _______________________________________
Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> added the comment: I'm fine w/ documenting load_dynamic() and leaving it as-is since importlib uses the function itself (plus the frozen/builtin functions, although the frozen stuff might be simplified since they can probably just return the bytes for the frozen module instead of doing as much work in C code). But load_package(), load_source(), and load_module() need to go. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14594> _______________________________________
Changes by Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com>: ---------- nosy: +eric.snow _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14594> _______________________________________
Berker Peksag added the comment: The imp module has been deprecated long time ago and the importlib module itself doesn't it anymore. However, Cython still use it: https://github.com/cython/cython/blob/master/pyximport/pyximport.py#L217 I'm inclined to close this as 'out of date' but feel free to reopen it :) ---------- nosy: +berker.peksag resolution: -> out of date stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14594> _______________________________________
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Eric Snow
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R. David Murray
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Stefan Behnel