[Import-SIG] PEP 420: Implicit Namespace Packages

[Barry Warsaw]

On May 04, 2012, at 04:16 PM, Paul Moore wrote:

>+1 and I'd also explicitly allow for loaders to assign other "private"
>metadata as well as __file__, if only to avoid the spectre of __file__
>being a base64-encoded pickled object :-)

That's in PEP 420 now too.

>I wonder whether treating repr specially is the best way, though -
>maybe have a loader method "code_location" which is defined as being a
>human-readable, but otherwise unspecified string. The key use case is
>for repr, but it might be useful elsewhere (IDE tooltips or some such
>usage spring to mind).

Maybe, but I think this is the simplest thing possible, which solves an
existing use case. :)

-Barry

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