[Python-Dev] PEP 273 - Import from Zip Archives

[Thomas Heller]

[bootstrapping an importer]
> > What do strop or string provide that string methods don't?  It's likely that
> > if you needed to import either in the past, you don't need to now.
> 
> 
> The real problem isn't the string module, it is the os module.  Any
> importer will need this.  The usual hack is to duplicate its logic
> in the my_importer module.  That is, the selection of the correct
> builtin os functions.

Couldn't this be solved in the same way that made the string
module obsolete?
I mean, move the functionality from the os module into
methods of file objects (or class methods of the file type)?

Example:
file.stat(pathname) instead of os.stat(pathname)

Thomas