[Edu-sig] Bootable Python CDs?

[Ian Bicking]

David Boddie wrote:
> On Thu Apr 27 17:47:15 CEST 2006, Ian Bicking wrote:
>  
> 
>>For something a bit more sophisticated, this is a good argument for
>>importing from URLs.  Not inlined into the code, but if you added say
>>'http://svn.classsite.com/repos/student-name' to sys.path, and an import
>>hook that knew how to read such sites (I think both importing from svn
>>and plain HTTP are possible, since you don't have to do a listdir to
>>attempt an import).
> 
> 
> HTTP isn't too hard. I wrote an import hook to do this a few years ago:
> 
>   http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/xhtmlhook/
> 
> Of course, it does other things besides import .py files over HTTP, but
> it shows that it can be done.
> 
> These days it could be implemented more cleanly using the improved import
> hook mechanism.

You are right, that wasn't hard at all: 
http://svn.colorstudy.com/home/ianb/httpimport.py

I haven't tested this seriously, and I'm not sure about the performance. 
  Mmm... data loading also fits in.

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