[Import-SIG] Do we really need to read .pth files in PEP 382?

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jun 24, 2011, at 05:15 PM, P.J. Eby wrote:

>I'm fine with another name. (namespace_subpath(), perhaps?)

Done!  Bikeshed painted! :)

>I've coded up a sketch of a 2.x implementation (enabled via "from pep382
>import meta_importer; meta_importer.install()") using that basic API
>approach, and it's pretty clean.

I would love to be able to back port this to Python 3.2.  Supporting clean
namespace packages in Python 2.{6,7} would be double win.

Do you want to push the code to Cheeseshop, or make a branch available
somewhere?

>(I don't think manipulating the __path__ directly would add anything, though,
>because it would only ever contain *previous* entries, not the entire
>__path__.)

Sounds good to me.
-Barry

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