[Python-Dev] New and Improved Import Hooks

Just van Rossum just@letterror.com
Wed, 4 Dec 2002 23:49:30 +0100


Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> FWIW, I've done lots of stuff that scans sys.path directories for
> various purposes.  It would probably be a good idea to use a string
> subclass for the zip importer, but I don't think we need to make
> stringness an absolute requirement.

+1

> Let's make it *really* easy to use zip archives, and reasonably easy
> to use other custom importers.

+1

Just