From 01875ebaecfa5bbca7162940e9c55106ab3b7200 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Just van Rossum <just@letterror.com> Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:22:38 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Broke the zipimport/PEP 302 news item into two separate items. --- Misc/NEWS | 21 ++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index de90058076..9ffc915fc6 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -79,18 +79,21 @@ Core and builtins ----------------- - Import from zipfiles is now supported. The name of a zipfile placed - on sys.path causes the import statement to look for importable - Python modules (with .py, pyc and .pyo extensions) and packages - inside the zipfile. To support this, several new variables have - been added to the sys module: sys.meta_path, sys.path_hooks, and - sys.path_importer_cache; these make extending the import statement - much more convenient than overriding the __import__ built-in - function. For a description of these, see PEP 302. The zipfile - import follows the specification (though not the sample - implementation) of PEP 273. The semantics of __path__ are + on sys.path causes the import statement to look for importable Python + modules (with .py, pyc and .pyo extensions) and packages inside the + zipfile. The zipfile import follows the specification (though not + the sample implementation) of PEP 273. The semantics of __path__ are compatible with those that have been implemented in Jython since Jython 2.1. +- PEP 302 has been accepted. Although it was inititally developed to + support zipimport, it offers a new, general import hook mechanism. + Several new variables have been added to the sys module: + sys.meta_path, sys.path_hooks, and sys.path_importer_cache; these + make extending the import statement much more convenient than + overriding the __import__ built-in function. For a description of + these, see PEP 302. + - A frame object's f_lineno attribute can now be written to from a trace function to change which line will execute next. A command to exploit this from pdb has been added. [SF patch #643835] -- 2.49.0