[Python-Dev] Import: where's the PEP?

[Martin v. Löwis]

Aahz <aahz@pythoncraft.com> writes:

> Doesn't look that way to me: Just is, after all, proposing a brand-new
> import hook mechanism.  His proposal is *compatible* with PEP 273, but
> it's definitely not the same thing.  That's not even talking about all
> the bandwidth that's been consumed with other ideas -- the whole point
> of the PEP mechanism is to avoid losing that valuable information!

I agree that a PEP should be written for anything that is going to be
accepted; I disagree that the whole point of the PEP mechanism is to
avoid losing valuable information.

Instead, I think the purpose of the PEP processis to focus the
discussion, so all people know they are talking about the same thing,
and you can better tell what remarks are off-topic, and avoid endless
repetition of the same observations.

In this discussion, I think PEP 273 helped to focus the discussion, as
every proposal for a new import mechanism had to show that it can
provide the feature of that PEP (i.e. zipfile imports).

Regards,
Martin