On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Ron Adam
* It almost seems like the concept of a sub-module (in a package) is flawed. I'm not sure I can explain what causes me to feel that way at the moment though.
It isn't flawed, it is just a *lot* more complicated than most people realise (cf. PEP 302). In this case, the signature of find_module (returning an already open file) is unfortunate, but probably necessary given the way the import internals currently work. As Brett says, returning a loader would be preferable, but the builtin import machinery doesn't have proper loaders defined (and won't until we manage to get to the point where importlib *is* the import machinery). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia