Re: importlib2

On 28 May 2014 14:55, "Eric Snow" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Motivated at PyCon by the "pymigrate" discussions, I started
> backporting importlib to 2.7.  I've finally freed up some time in the
> last week or so and have come close to having the project ready to
> release on the cheeseshop (as importlib2).  I'm hosting the repo and
> bug tracker on bitbucket:
>
> https://bitbucket.org/ericsnowcurrently/importlib2

Awesome!

> Feel free to take it for a spin.  Keep in mind that any functionality
> that depends on the no-longer-implicit import state (finders/path
> hooks) will not work without first calling importlib2.hook.inject().
> That includes importlib2.import_module().  If you notice any other
> rough corners just let me know.
>
> There are a few minor things I want to wrap up before officially
> releasing the project, but that shouldn't take much work.  In parallel
> I'm going to start working on the pymigrate* project, which will
> leverage importlib2 and importers to facilitate per-module enforcement
> of the 2.7/3.x intersection language.

Yeah, that's going to be a pretty significant project (in both senses of
the word). Thanks for taking the initiative to get it moving!

Cheers,
Nick.

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