[Python-Dev] New and Improved Import Hooks

[Steve Holden]

[MvL]
> > 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.
[Guido]
>
> 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.
>

Agreed. Like MAL I feel this is an important patch to get in to the
distribution, even if it leaves a refactoring job behind it. Safe for me to
say when I no longer do C, I suppose :-) but I'm speaking from a user
perspective here.

regards
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