[Python-ideas] Proposal: Moratorium on Python language changes

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Thu Oct 22 00:49:13 CEST 2009


On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 15:33, Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Eric Smith <eric at trueblade.com> wrote:
> > "The import statement is extended so that it directly considers *.pth
> files
> > during import".
>
> This sounds like the implementation of the import statement, not the
> language definition.


But that is a change in semantics for __import__ which is a built-in. It's
gray area.

-Brett
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