Brett Cannon, 14.04.2012 20:12: > My multi-year project -- started in 2006 according to my blog -- to rewrite > import in pure Python and then bootstrap it into CPython as *the* > implementation of __import__() is finally over (mostly)! Hopefully I didn't > break too much code in the process. =)
Well, some at least. The new import cache broke Cython's load of on-the-fly compiled extension modules, which naively used "__import__(module_name)" after building them. I could fix that by moving to "imp.load_dynamic()" (we know where we put the compiled module anyway), although I just noticed that that's not actually documented. So I hope that won't break later on. The next thing I noticed is that the old-style level -1 import no longer works, which presumably breaks a *lot* of Cython compiled modules. It used to work in the master branch until two days ago, now it raises a ValueError. We may be able to fix this by copying over CPython's old import code into Cython, but I actually wonder if this was really intended. If this feature wasn't deliberately broken in Py3.0, why break it now? Stefan _______________________________________________ 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
