[Python-Dev] Add __exports__ to modules

Greg Stein gstein@lyra.org
Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:53:32 -0800


On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 07:45:44PM +0100, Thomas Wouters wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:53:16AM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> > I note that the IMPORT opcodes in ceval.c require that the imported
> > module (as found in sys.modules[name] or returned by __import__()) is
> > a real module object.  I think this is unnecessary -- at least
> > IMPORT_FROM should work even if the module is a proxy or some other
> > thing (I've been known to smuggle class instances into sys.modules :-)
> > and IMPORT_STAR should work with a non-module at least if it has an
> > __all__ attribute.
> 
> Hmm.... Have you been sneaking looks at python-list again, Guido ? :-) I'm
> certain the expanding of IMPORT would make a lot of people very happy. Alex
> Martelli only just discovered the fact you can populate sys.modules
> yourself, with non-module objects, and was wondering about its legality and
> compatibility.
> 
> I, for one, am very +1 on the idea, also on MAL's idea to do our best in the
> IMPORT_STAR case (try dict.items(), etc.)

+1 ... I'm always up for removing type restrictions. Did that with the
bytecodes in function objects a while back.

Cheers,
-g

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