Message12344

Oh the horror, the horror!

I have spent a couple of weeks in imp.java with a debugger, and I can safely say there is some weird stuff here. Did we know that every time a module imports a module, we enumerate all the packages in the JVM? I didn't.

I made some notes. https://inside-jython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/import.html#sequence-of-events-in-jython-2-7-1

I would really like to re-write this based on a modern Python 2 import.c but unlike the comparable (and beneficial) re-write of jython.java, the bits specific to Java packages are mysterious and fragile-looking.

I'm seriously contemplating leaving this as it is in 2.7.2.