[Python-ideas] Remote package/module imports through HTTP/S

John Torakis john.torakis at gmail.com
Wed Aug 23 14:44:15 EDT 2017



On 23/08/2017 21:41, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> This isn't ever going to be a standard feature. It's available as a
> third-party package and that's fine.
>
> I'd like to add a historic note -- this was first proposed around 1995
> by Michael McLay. (Sorry, I don't have an email sitting around, but
> I'm sure he brought this up at or around the first Python workshop at
> NIST in 1995 -- I was his guest at NIST for several months at the time.)
>
Woah! I was 2 years old at that time! Little did I know!
Can I ask why it got rejected the first time?
> -- 
> --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido <http://python.org/%7Eguido>)
>
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