Guido van Rossum wrote:
It seems to me this totally solves Jim Fulton's and Marc's problem and makes "__" unnecessary. You just install zope and mx in zopedir, perform the above, and presto you have a new private name space where you can control all your names. But there must be some problem here I haven't thought of.
I think no simple solution that *I* can come up with will satisfy JimF's and Marc's desire for obscurity :-)
Never mind, I'll use an imputil.py based approach to get relative imports to work in my packages. That is when I get imputil.py to work... it doesn't seem to be quite there yet (or I'm using an old version). BTW, I'm 100% behind you guys if you choose to reimplement Python's import mechanism in Python using a similar approach as the one Greg implemented in imputil. Should make everybody happy: those who want obscure syntactic add-ons and others with a taste for zlib'ed packaged byte code, plus those VMS freaks ;-) Perhaps we should start a new thread on that topic... Still needed are: · Python level APIs for the platform specific magic on Win32 and Macs (OS/2, BeOS ?), e.g. access to the Windows registry and the Mac forks · Patches to make the DirectoryImporter 100% backward compatible Greg's imputil.py can be found at: http://www.lyra.org/greg/small/ The trick would then be to install an application specific importer in the setup module Spam_path or MyAppSetup which then takes care of all the rest... -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Y2000: 107 days left Business: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/