PEP 382 Sprint

• Silver Spring, Maryland USA 21-Jun-2011 2000UTC

Tasks

• review Martin's branch hg clone http://hg.python.org/features/pep-382

  • look for reference counting issues

  • other initialization issues (*foo = NULL)

• do we have sufficient test coverage?

  • top-level non-trivial init.py

  • various reload scenarios

  • both __init__.py and .pth file exists

• is importlib is covered?

• pull down 3rd party pep 302 loader and see if/how it's broken
• refactor import.c to yank out anything that can be written as a 302 loader?
  • --e.g. zip import-- Already done, but zipimport needs to support PEP-382
  • could land independently (but need to go through python-dev)
  • does this really make our lives easier?
• attempt a merge of mvl's branch to trunk
• figure out build problems on windows (jaraco)
• test_imp gives one failure on fedora (make sure imp module has been updated)

PEP Questions

• Clarify what happens when a directory contains both an __init__.py and a .pth file

• PEP should clarify what the impact of the PEP is on existing namespace packages (i.e. those with magic __init__.py files

• Do import statements in .pth files get ignored or does it raise an error?