[Python-Dev] New and Improved Import Hooks

[Moore, Paul]

> It doesn't matter much, though, in that as long as we
> don't want to rewrite import.c as a whole we're stuck
> with the two-step scheme anyway.

I don't wish to seem difficult here, but didn't this start
from the basis that import.c was a mess, Jim Ahlstrom's
patch was going to make it worse, and we should clean it up
rather than making it worse?

Don't get me wrong, I'd like to see a better import hook
mechanism. And I'd like to see zipfile imports. And I'd
like to see the import code cleaned up.

But iu.py does all I need from import hooks. Jim Ahlstrom's
patch does zip imports. If Just's code doesn't clean up the
import code, I quite honestly don't understand the point.

I think this reinforces the need for a PEP. It would clearly
describe the benefits of the patch - both in overall terms,
and in comparison to the (more limited) scope of PEP 273.

Paul.