python24.zip

Sun May 22 14:00:38 EDT 2005

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.