arbitrary nested parens in a %(...)X style format.
#Also folded two lines and added more detail to the error message for
#unsupported format character.
resource files with various inheritence rules, parsers, etc.
pythonprefs uses this to create a single uniform interface to all
relevant python preferences.
preference handling code is in modules pythonprefs and preferences.
This should finally make it easier for someone (Just?) to write a
decent interface to preference setting, and it'll allow setting
initial sys.path and such from ConfigurePython.
instance, use inst.__dict__.update(value) instead of a for loop with
setattr() over the value.keys(). This is more consistent (the
pickling doesn't use getattr() either but pickles inst.__dict__) and
avoids problems with instances that have a __setattr__ hook.
But it *is* a semantic change (because the setattr hook is no longer
used). So beware!
dummy entry to sys.modules, marking the absence of a submodule by the
same name.
Thus, if module foo.bar executes the statement "import time",
sys.modules['foo.time'] will be set to None, once the absence of a
module foo.time is confirmed (by looking for it in foo's path).
The next time when foo.bar (or any other submodule of foo) executes
"import time", no I/O is necessary to determine that there is no
module foo.time.
(Justification: It may seem strange to pollute sys.modules. However,
since we're doing the lookup anyway it's definitely the fastest
solution. This is the same convention that 'ni' uses and I haven't
heard any complaints.)
right thing.
Still to do:
- Make reload() of a submodule work.
- Performance tweaks -- currently, a submodule that tries to import a
global module *always* searches the package directory first, even if
the global module was already imported. Not sure how to solve this
one; probably need to record misses per package.
- Documentation!
errors are handled (these gave ``TypeError: not enough arguments'').
Also changed its __str__() to correct a typo (missing self.) and
return str(self.msg) to ensure the result is always string.
Also changed the default __str__ to simply return str(self.args).
This doesn't yet support "import a.b.c" or "from a.b.c import x", but
it does recognize directories. When importing a directory, it
initializes __path__ to a list containing the directory name, and
loads the __init__ module if found.
The (internal) find_module() and load_module() functions are
restructured so that they both also handle built-in and frozen modules
and Mac resources (and directories of course). The imp module's
find_module() and (new) load_module() also have this functionality.
Moreover, imp unconditionally defines constants for all module types,
and has two more new functions: find_module_in_package() and
find_module_in_directory().
There's also a new API function, PyImport_ImportModuleEx(), which
takes all four __import__ arguments (name, globals, locals, fromlist).
The last three may be NULL. This is currently the same as
PyImport_ImportModule() but in the future it will be able to do
relative dotted-path imports.
Other changes:
- bltinmodule.c: in __import__, call PyImport_ImportModuleEx().
- ceval.c: always pass the fromlist to __import__, even if it is a C
function, so PyImport_ImportModuleEx() is useful.
- getmtime.c: the function has a second argument, the FILE*, on which
it applies fstat(). According to Sjoerd this is much faster. The
first (pathname) argument is ignored, but remains for backward
compatibility (so the Mac version still works without changes).
By cleverly combining the new imp functionality, the full support for
dotted names in Python (mini.py, not checked in) is now about 7K,
lavishly commented (vs. 14K for ni plus 11K for ihooks, also lavishly
commented).
Good night!
Jack Jansen
Guido van Rossum
Fred Drake