I just discovered frozen packages set their __path__ simply to their name and not to a list as expected (http://bugs.python.org/issue4211). This made me think about the 'path' argument to find_module() and whether it can be treated as simply a hint or should always be seriously looked at. Take frozen modules, for instance. If the 'path' argument is meant to always be considered then if a frozen module is within a package a check should be done to make sure that the parent package is in 'path' somewhere. But if it is simply a hint, then 'path' should be ignored and whether the module can be found should depend fully on imp.is_frozen(). So, what do people think? Should 'path' for find_module() always be taken into consideration, or only when it happens to be convenient? -Brett