[Python-Dev] zipimport._zip_directory_cache interface

[Brett Cannon]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
> _zip_directory_cache is a cache for modules imported by zipimporter.
> It's a normal dictionary exposing gory details of zipimport
> implementation. It wouldn't be a bad thing on it's own, but pkgutil.py
> uses this knowledge, while _zip_directory_cache has no single test nor
> documentation (besides info in docstring). It's a bit of a pain to
> actually implement this in other python implementations (especially
> that cache can be internal and exposed differently). I think it should
> be either specified better (and stripped from _) or zipimport should
> expose some nicer interface to it's cache. What do you think?
>

How useful is the cache access? If it is not necessary, I think
pkgutil just needs to stop using it.

If it is useful to access, the question becomes who exposes the cache;
the module, the importers, or the loaders?

-Brett