Robin Becker wrote: > 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?
No. Each path hook is supposed to provide a decision as to whether this is a useful item on sys.path only once; the importer objects themselves are then cached (with some operation to clear the cache). Each path hook may apply its own algorithm, e.g. looking at the syntactical structure or the type of the sys.path item, so not all of them need stat/open to determine whether they support the item. The multiplicative behaviour rather results from the different type of modules: each path item may carry .py, .pyc, .so, module.so, etc. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
