[Python-Dev] Release manager pronouncement needed: PEP 302 Fix

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 04:07 PM 7/28/2006 -0400, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
>On Friday 28 July 2006 00:49, Neal Norwitz wrote:
>  > Based on this comment, is it really acceptable to just document a
>  > behaviour change?  ISTM there should really only be 2 choices:  fix
>  > 2.5 properly or revert the change.  This seemed to be Armin's
>  > position.
>
>I agree those are the only reasonable solutions.  I'd rather see things 
>fixed,
>but I don't know how much time Phillip has to work on it.  I'll be working on
>the straigtening out the xmlcore issue tonight/tomorrow.

I'm testing a semi-final version of the fix now.  It's minimally intrusive 
in that it only adds an "imp.NullImporter" type to replace the "False" 
value, and it keeps "None" to mean that the built-in import machinery 
should be used.