[EuroPython] little BOFs again

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Floris Bruynooghe <flub at devork.be> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 05:56:07PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>>  rexec, regardless of the "breakage", actually had other benefits,
>> most notably demonstrated by overloading import to allow scripts to be
>> loaded out of sql databases rather than off the filesystem, on-demand.
>>  whether sandboxing was broken or not was completely irrelevant, as
>> far as the overriding / sub-classing of rexec was concerned.
>
> Shouldn't this be possible in a clean way with a PEP 302 import hook?

 ahh, that would mean writing new code :)  rexec.py, _aside_ from that
two-line breakage, was just perfect for the task, assuming a level of
technical ignorance by the users, which was perfectly reasonable in
the circumstances where the product was deployed.

 l.