[Python-Dev] zipimport & import hooks

[Guido van Rossum]

> but what if I *want* to do fruity things?  that's the whole point here:
> if the framework delegates imports to objects in the sys.path list, it's
> dead simple to experiment.

That's a good point.  The question then is, if you want to use some
3rd party code that assumes strings, and it breaks as a result, what
is broken?  Your code or the 3rd party code?

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