At 09:24 AM 5/31/2010 +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Is this really how it works today? Shouldn't it abort here if there is an ImportError?

Oops. You're right - I was confusing find_module with the path_hooks protoocol.

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else: # errors here should propagate module = loader.load_module(fullname) if not hasattr(module, '__path__'): # found, but not a package return module

pc = get_pth_contents(importer)

Assuming we always get here with a loader, I'd rather call this on the loader.

We don't, unless the finder natively supports PEP 382.