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I see the magic cookies as a poor man's (but more compatible!) version of a chain of importers as advocated by Greg Stein and other imputil fans. [...]

I know this has been asked before, but cannot recall any of the arguments against it: how about replacing Jack's magic cookies with importer objects?

For the record: I definitely agree with both comments here. The only thing that would need solving (but maybe it already is? Greg?) is the external representation of an importer, as I'd definitely want to be able to name them in PYTHONPATH (or the mac equivalent). -- Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++ www.oratrix.nl/~jack | see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm