[Python-Dev] PEP 376 and PEP 302 - allowing import hooks to provide distribution metadata

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Paul Moore<p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/3 Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>:
>> 2009/7/3 Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com>:
>>> Does this sound sensible? Tarek, would you be OK with me attempting to
>>> modify your prototype to support this protocol? Are there any tests
>>> for PEP 376, so that I can confirm I haven't completely broken
>>> something? If I can, I'll knock up some simple prototype importers for
>>> non-standard examples, and see how they work with all this.
>>
>> Yes that's exactly what I was thinking about after the discussion we
>> had in the other thread. This change would allow much more flexibility.
>
> One important note - I plan on using the fact that DistributionDirMap
> is not public, and hacking it about drastically, or possibly even
> removing it. (After all, the likes of the load method don't make sense
> when you've got sys.meta_path, sys.path_importer_cache and the like to
> consider).
>
> If the loss of any of the "internal" classes is an issue, say so now!

Go for it please, and let me know if you set a bitbucket account, so
you can push your commits in there directly


>
> Paul.
>



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