Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Anthony Baxter wrote: > >> I also don't think it will be the "death" of distutils. I think that >> over time the two pieces of code will become closer together - >> hopefully for Python 3.0 we can formally merge the two. > > I was hoping that for Python 3.0, we could get around to unkludge the > sys.path/meta_path/path_hooks/path_importer_cache big ball of hacks, > possibly by replacing sys.path with something a bit more intelligent than > a plain list.
+1000 I'd like to be able to simply import a file if I have the filename. And I'd like to be able to load sourcecode from an Oracle database and have useful "filename" and line number information if I get a traceback. Servus, Walter _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com