[Import-SIG] PEP 420: Implicit Namespace Packages

[fwierzbicki at gmail.com]

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>> Too clever for Jython at them moment :) -- which leads me to ask:
>> Should I consider this a a feature of the sys module?
>
>
> No, this is an ability of types.ModuleType (which I don't have access to in
> importlib, so I just inlined the call). This works for any module in
> CPython.
Ah of course, and our ModuleType works just fine for this. The Jython
sys module is fake sadly. Perhaps 3.x will be the time to finally make
it a real module... it's been a fake module  with a comment at the top
to make it a real module for longer than I've been involved.

BTW any real module works for us, for example:

>>> type(os)('foo')
<module 'foo' (built-in)>

-Frank