[Import-SIG] PEP 420: Implicit Namespace Packages

[Brett Cannon]

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Eric V. Smith <eric at trueblade.com> wrote:

> I'm working on finishing up the PEP 420 work. I think the PEP itself is
> complete. If you have any comments, please send them to me or this list.
>
> The implementation at features/pep-420 has been merged with the recent
> importlib changes to the 3.3 branch. I've implemented support in the
> import machinery itself, as well as modified the filesystem finder
> (FileFinder) and the zipimport finder.
>
> About the only question I have is: Is everyone okay with the changes to
> the finders, described in the PEP? Basically they now return a string in
> addition to a loader or None. If they return a string, then the string
> represents the path of a possible namespace package portion. The change
> is backward compatible: unmodified finders will just be unable to
> participate in a namespace package.
>

I obviously okay with the change. =) So this email is just a +1 in support
of this work and a thanks for coding it up and seeing this through!

-Brett


>
> Barry Warsaw, Jason Coombs, and I are sprinting this Thursday. We'll
> focus on adding tests, and maybe documentation if we have time. If
> anyone has any concerns I'd like to hear them before then so that we can
> work on addressing them.
>
> The changes themselves are very small. I think the diff is a total of
> maybe 40 lines of code. Yury Selivanov had mentioned backporting to 3.2
> (which I assume would be an unsupported-by-python-dev effort). I
> actually don't think it would be all that complicated.
>

Ignoring that the classes he would need to access are technically private,
backporting should be no more than a subclass and an extra stat call by
FileFinder if None is returned.

-Brett


>
> Eric.
>
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