[Python-Dev] importlib is now bootstrapped (and what that means)

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Tue Apr 17 07:05:00 CEST 2012


Amaury Forgeot d'Arc, 16.04.2012 22:43:
> 2012/4/16 Stefan Behnel
>>> On the down side, we would depend on Cython for evolving .
>>
>> Right, although not as a strict dependency. The code would still work just
>> fine in plain Python.
> 
> Not quite, we are talking of the imp module here...

Hmm, right, after writing the above, I figured that it would at least have
to do something like "import sys" in order to deal with the import config
(path, meta path, ...). That obviously won't work in pure Python at this point.

Stefan



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