10 Dec
2002
10 Dec
'02
3:09 p.m.
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
So what would have been the problem with linear search that makes this extra data structure strictly necessary to have?
Speed. The linear search would be repeated with each import.
I think you can't really cover all cases. For example, your patch fails to find zlib in the Unix build tree, as the build directory is added to sys.path only in site.py, and your patch won't attempt to import zlib outside InitZip.
Hmm, you are right. But easily fixed. JimA