On 9/21/06, Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/21/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think one missing feature is a mechanism whereby you can say "THIS > > package (gives top-level package name) lives HERE (gives filesystem > > location of package)" without adding the parent of HERE to sys.path > > for all module searches. I think Phillip Eby's egg system might > > benefit from this. > > This is pretty easy to do with a custom importer on sys.meta_path. > Getting the details right is a touch fiddly, but it's conceptually > straightforward.
Isn't the main problem how to specify a bunch of these in the environment? Or can this be done through .pkg files? Those aren't cheap either though -- it would be best if the work was only done when the package is actually needed. > Hmm, I might play with this - a set of PEP 302 importers to completely > customise the import mechanism. The never-completed "phase 2" of the > PEP included a reimplementation of the built in import mechanism as > hooks. Is there any interest in this actually happening? I've been > looking for an interesting coding project for a while (although I > never have any free time...) There's a general desire to reimplement import entirely in Python for more flexibility. I believe Brett Cannon is working on this. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
