[Python-Dev] Plea: can modulefinder.py move to the library?

[Guido van Rossum]

> Documentation: Ok, that'll need to been done.
> 
> Regarding the print statements: most are in ModuleFinder.msg() and
> ModuleFinder.report(), and then there are two in
> _try_registry(). Apart from the latter, if msg() and reprot() are
> not appropriate for an application, they can easily be overridden.
> 
> But: by default, self.debug is set to zero, which means that no
> msg's are ever printed. I think the module as is is just fine (apart
> perhaps from the _try_registry print statements), it's a meta tool
> after all. If you don't agree: how should it be changed
> specifically?

Ok, make it so!

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)