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[Steve Holden]

Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> writes on Sun, 22 May 2005 09:14:43 -0400:
> 
>>...
>>There are some aspects of Python's initialization that are IMHO a bit
>>too filesystem-dependent. I mentioned one in
>>
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1116520&group_id=5470&atid=105470
>>
>>
>>but I'd appreciate further support. Ideally there should be some means
>>for hooked import mechanisms to provide answers that are currently
>>sought from the filestore.
> 
> 
> There are such hooks. See e.g. the "meta_path" hooks as
> described by PEP 302.

Indeed I have written PEP 302-based code to import from a relational 
database, but I still don't believe there's any satisfactory way to have 
[such a hooked import mechanism] be a first-class component of an 
architecture that specifically requires an os.py to exist in the file 
store during initialization.

I wasn't asking for an import hook mechanism (since I already knew these 
to exist), but for a way to allow such mechanisms to be the sole import 
support for certain implementations.

regards
  Steve
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