[Python-Dev] New and Improved Import Hooks

[Guido van Rossum]

> If more people speak in favour of rejecting the zipfile import patch, we
> should probably tell Paul Moore, so that won't invest more time into
> what is a doomed project.

I agree with both sides here. :-( / :-)

The zipfile feature is important, and if this patch is the only way to
get the feature in, so be it.

But import.c really can use a cleanup.

I wouldn't be against incorporating some version of the patch now, and
cleaning it up later, possibly adding a new import hooking framework
and moving some of the zip specific code out of import.c again.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)