-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 7, 2007, at 7:39 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
>> I think it's important to import on demand only though. > > And I agree. Cool. >> I should >> probably make that clear in the PEP <wink>. IOW, "import email" >> should not by side-effect import all sub-modules just because there's >> a remapping involved. This actually would be quite easy to do, but >> it's one of the reasons why the Python 2.5 email package hack goes >> through so much trouble. > I am not suggesting that every rename be imported. All I am saying is > that a .pth file could ``import pkg.old_names`` and that old_names > module adds the mappings, that's all. It doesn't do anything that you > are not proposing be done automatically. Cool, I see. What advantage do you see with importing the pkg.old_names from a .pth file rather than just including whatever is necessary right in pkg/__init__.py? - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRe9+wHEjvBPtnXfVAQI60AP8D7PFDNVR/BiLEoz8iQKYJUOsd8vtXTF5 lcmDi+L0SZ8N95KxlI2icQmaRk2wNhO+0Djp3XJA/aKiHTWa3ImIksuGFb7WIRSY HhSi2NXPRJOitHz3NhDrfMOFXbDq+Ci4E1YU/+XjtfnsEYqkcLvehvlpY3Urod/j Z/9g6BDGOuM= =pxLk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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