[Python-ideas] Packages and Import

[Collin Winter]

On 2/10/07, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> On 2/9/07, Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu> wrote:
> >  Presumably if you have some module imported from a
> > database (who does this, really?),
>
> No one at the moment.  But think of it as an alternative to zip files
> if you use sqlite3 for the DB storage.  Several people have told me
> privately they would like to see an importer and loader for this.

I did stuff like this a while back, writing __import__ functions to
pull modules from a database or directly from an SVN repository. I'm
not saying it's a good idea, but it is being done.

Collin Winter