added note about the need of more introspective features: listing available modules and data files.

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Just van Rossum 2002-12-23 22:46:21 +00:00
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@ -502,6 +502,14 @@ Open Issues
us nothing extra. Whether loaders will ever need to carry so much
independent state for this to become a real issue is questionable.
It was suggested on python-dev that it would be useful to be able to
receive a list of available modules from an importer and/or a list
of available data files for use with the get_data() method. The
protocol could grow two additional extensions, say list_modules()
and list_files(). The latter makes sense on loader objects with a
get_data() method. However, it's a bit unclear which object should
implement list_modules(): the importer or the loader or both?
Implementation