[Python-ideas] PEP 511: API for code transformers

[Greg Ewing]

Sven R. Kunze wrote:
> Some people 
> proposed a "from __extensions__ import my_extension"; inspired by 
> __future__ imports, i.e. it is forced to be at the top. Why? Because it 
> somehow makes sense to perform all transformations the first time a file 
> is loaded.

It occurs to me that a magic import for applying local
transformations could itself be implemented using a
global transformer.

-- 
Greg