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Add a load_parents argument to importlib.find_loader() #60696

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brettcannon opened this issue Nov 17, 2012 · 2 comments
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Add a load_parents argument to importlib.find_loader() #60696

brettcannon opened this issue Nov 17, 2012 · 2 comments
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BPO 16492
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  • bpo-19944: Make importlib.find_spec load packages as needed
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    To make using importlib.find_loader() easier, there should be a flag that says to automatically import all parent packages for the desired submodule so as to not force the user to do it::

      def find_loader(name, path=None, *, load_parents=False): ...

    That way people who are okay with loading some packages implicitly to get at a specific loader can do so without having to do boilerplate name.split('.'); import each parent code. Also means people don't have to worry about the path argument (unless they explicitly want to trigger loading from a different location).

    @brettcannon brettcannon added stdlib Python modules in the Lib dir type-feature A feature request or enhancement labels Nov 17, 2012
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    find_loader() is now deprecated and we're going to support auto-importing parent modules in find_spec() (see bpo-19944)

    @ezio-melotti ezio-melotti transferred this issue from another repository Apr 10, 2022
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