[Python-Dev] New and Improved Import Hooks

[Guido van Rossum]

> >1. Your import hooks seem to act at a level "above" sys.path,
> >   in the sense that the normal sys.path search becomes just
> >   another hook. With that in mind, I don't see a way for a user
> >   to add a zipfile in the *middle* of sys.path.
> 
> It is worth to notice that Jython 2.1 already implement more or less
> PEP 273 approach, allowing to add zipfiles to sys.path.

I'd be disappointed if adding zipfiles to sys.path wasn't possible.
After all that's what PEP 273 says.

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