[Python-Dev] Does Zip Importer have to be Special?

[Phil Thompson]

On 24/07/2014 7:26 pm, Brett Cannon wrote:
> On Thu Jul 24 2014 at 2:12:20 PM, Phil Thompson 
> <phil at riverbankcomputing.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 24/07/2014 6:48 pm, Brett Cannon wrote:
>> > IOW allowing for easy patching of Python is probably the best option I
>> > can
>> > think of. Would tweaking importlib._bootstrap._install() to accept
>> > specified values for sys.meta_path and sys.path_hooks be enough so that
>> > you
>> > can change the call site for those functions?
>> 
>> My importer runs under PathFinder so it needs sys.path as well (and
>> doesn't need sys.meta_path).
> 
> sys.path can be set via PYTHONPATH, etc. so that shouldn't be as much 
> of an
> issue.

I prefer to have Py_IgnoreEnvironmentFlag set.

Also I'm not clear at what point I would import my custom importer?

Phil