[PEAK] Virtual Pythons

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jul 28, 2004, at 12:32 AM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

> One of the mildly annoying things about trying to develop any sort of 
> really sophisticated extensible system in Python is that modules are 
> global.  That is, you can only have one instance of a given module or 
> package.
...
> I do see a few complications:
...
>  * There will probably need to be some sort of re-entrant locking to 
> prevent multiple threads from trying to perform an import in the same 
> module space at the same time, and it will need to be in addition to 
> the pre-existing __import__ lock.

Doesn't Python already have that?

-bob
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