[Python-Dev] New Import Hooks PEP, a first draft (and req. for PEP #)

[Jack Jansen]

On vrijdag, dec 20, 2002, at 21:19 Europe/Amsterdam, Just van Rossum 
wrote:

> Thomas Heller wrote:
>
>> Looks ok to me, although I would prefer to write
>>
>>         path = os.sep.join(__name__.split(".") + ["wininst.exe"])
>> or
>>         path = os.path.join(*__name__.split(".") + ["wininst.exe"])
>
> Much better. I think I'd prefer the first, mostly because 
> os.path.join()
> might do more magic than needed.

But that magic would actually be needed for MacOS9 pathnames. 
os.path.join(*['foo', 'bar']) will correctly return ':foo:bar', whereas 
os.sep.join will return 'foo:bar', which is wrong.

Not that we should care all that much anymroe about MacOS9 pathnames, 
but still...
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