[Import-SIG] New draft revision for PEP 382

[P.J. Eby]

At 03:52 PM 7/8/2011 -0600, Eric Snow wrote:
>1. Should this PEP wait until importlib.__import__ replaces the
>builtin __import__?  That will have bearing on where the
>implementation takes place.  I'm not sure of the status of that
>effort, other than what Brett has reported in the tracker issue
>(http://bugs.python.org/issue2377), nor of the timeframe.
>
>2. Should it wait for the work on the import engine (a GSOC project).
>It sounds like a PEP is in the works right now.  It may also impact
>the implementation of this PEP.

Honestly, since I've done very little with Python 3.x and don't 
expect to be involved in the implementation there, I would leave 
answering those questions to the folks involved.

I will say, though, that this really doesn't modify the main import 
processing loop much; it's just an extra method call at the point 
where you have a finder, and a few extra local variables.  So I don't 
see any insurmountable obstacles to adding it to import.c, at least 
given what I remember of how the 2.x version works.

But again, I'm not the one doing the work, so take that with a grain 
of salt.  ;-)