Re: [Python-Dev] [ANN] VPython 0.1

2008-10-26 Thread Jakob Sievers
"Phillip J. Eby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 10:47 AM 10/24/2008 +0200, J. Sievers wrote: >> - Right now, CPython's bytecode is translated to direct threaded code >> lazily (when a code object is first evaluated). This would have to >> be merged into compile.c in some way plus some assorte

Re: [Python-Dev] [ANN] VPython 0.1

2008-10-26 Thread Greg Ewing
Stefan Behnel wrote: That's obviously a problem, but it only answers the second question, not the first one. [does using a generator for the VM make life easier for the Stackless Python developers in any way?] The Stackless Python developers themselves would have to answer that one, but my gue

[Python-Dev] is the 'path' argument to an importer's find_module() just a hint?

2008-10-26 Thread Brett Cannon
I just discovered frozen packages set their __path__ simply to their name and not to a list as expected (http://bugs.python.org/issue4211). This made me think about the 'path' argument to find_module() and whether it can be treated as simply a hint or should always be seriously looked at. Take fro