[Import-sig] Re: Long-awaited imputil comments
Guido van Rossum
guido@python.org
Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:52:08 -0500
> [Guido]
> > > I'm still worried about get_code() returning the code object
> > > (or even a module, in the case of extensions). This means
> > > that something like freeze might have to re-implement the
> > > whole module searching -- first, it might want the source code
> > > instead of the code object, and second, it might not want the
> > > extension to be loaded at all!
[Gordon]
> If a freeze mechanism is analyzing source, then it needs
> source, but I don't think that's necessary. Then only other
> reason I can see for wanting source is if freeze is running with
> one magic number, but the frozen code will run with another,
> (to which I say "tough toenails, tootsie").
Maybe my freezer wants to store the source as well as the code
objects, so it can give decent tracebacks.
Which reminds me -- we need to introduce a standard API to retrieve
the source for a module that's been imported (if it's available at
all). I can easily see how archives can be distributed containing
both .pyc and .py files; the zip access module could easily find the
.py file on request.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)