On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
Gordon McMillan wrote:
But I strongly believe that import.c should be left alone, maybe even to die. There are too many people doing import hooks to make fiddling with its behavior safe.
I'm also a strong proponent of Greg's imputil.py scheme, which makes it a breeze to do import hooks. And my experience disproves the notion that the import mechanism needs to be in C. If you don't believe me, try the ZlibArchive stuff (which is cross platform) from my Win32 installer stuff. You can pack the standard library into one 475K file, and get a perceptible performance boost.
You're probably right in saying that we don't need the code in C. I just wanted to avoid yet another import hook being incompatible with all the other existing hooks.
Perhaps we should restart the import discussion all over and come up with a more flexbile 100% compatible framework based on Greg's imputil scheme. Then I could add my hook for the relative imports and be happy ;-)
I'll code up some patches to strip down import.c and replace with imputil.py and some bootstrap/support C code -- as soon as 1.6 development opens up. Guido? Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/