Martin v. Löwis wrote: .... > > > Now I remember what makes this stuff really difficult: PEP 302 > introduces path hooks (sys.path_hooks), allowing imports from > other sources than files. So the items on sys.path don't have > to be directory or file names at all, and importing from them > may still succeed if though stat fails. .... so is there implication of multiplicative behaviour?
ie if we have N importers and F leading failure syspath entries before the correct one is found do we get order N*F failed stats/opens etc etc? -- Robin Becker -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list