I was just thinking along those same lines.  Sounds like twisted already does it.  Does it amount to using a custom __import__?<div><br></div><div>-eric <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Greg Ewing <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz">greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">Eric Snow wrote:<br>
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I am sure there is some convoluted way to make it work, but it would not nearly be worth it for what we would get out of it.<br>
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What would be useful from time to time is a more straightforward<br>
way of getting a module that&#39;s based on a subclass of the<br>
built-in module class. While that&#39;s currently possible, it<br>
requires some not-entirely-obvious hackery.<br>
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-- <br><font color="#888888">
Greg</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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