Heading toward a final draft of the Py-2 instances.

README.rst

@@ -11,24 +11,24 @@ Problem Statement
 
 The Python module loader system is hard-coded to prevent the discovery
 of heterogenous source code packages.  From Python 2.6 through the
-current (as of this writing) Python 3.5, the import mechanism allowed
+current (as of this writing) Python 3.5, the import mechanism allows for
-for the creation of file finders and importers that would transform
+the creation of file finders and importers that would transform Python's
-Python's import syntax into a *path,* assert whether or not that path
+import syntax into a *path,* assert whether or not that path could be
-could be made to correspond to a *syntax object*, and then attempt to
+made to correspond to a *syntax object*, and then attempt to *load* that
-*load* that syntax object as a Python module.  Python *packages*,
+syntax object as a Python module.  Python *packages*, however, are
-however, are assumed to be uniformly made up of Python syntax objects,
+assumed to be uniformly made up of Python syntax objects, be they
-be they **.py** source files, **.pyc/.pyo** bytecode, or **.so/.dll**
+**.py** source files, **.pyc/.pyo** bytecode, or **.so/.dll** files with
-files with an exposed Python-to-C API.  In Python 2 these suffixes are
+an exposed Python-to-C API.  In Python 2 these suffixes are hard-coded
-hard-coded into the source in the **imp** builtin module; in Python 3
+into the source in the **imp** builtin module; in Python 3 these
-these suffixes are constants defined in a private section of
+suffixes are constants defined in a private section of **importlib**; in
-**importlib**; in either case, they are unavailable for modification.
+either case, they are unavailable for modification.  This lack of access
-This lack of access to the extensions list prevents the *discovery* of
+to the extensions list prevents the *discovery* of heterogenous source
-heterogenous source code packages.
+code packages.
 
-The discovery mechanism is outlined in Python's pkgutil module; features
+The discovery mechanism is outlined in Python's **pkgutil** module;
-such as **pkgutil.iter_modules** do not work with heterogenous source
+features such as **pkgutil.iter_modules** do not work with heterogenous
-code, which in turn means that one cannot write, for one important
+source code, which in turn means that one cannot write, for one
-example, Django management commands in an alternative syntax.
+important example, Django management commands in an alternative syntax.
 
 **polyloader** is a python module that intercepts calls to the default
 finder, loader, and package module iterator, and if the path resolves to

polyloader/__init__.py

@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ __author__ = 'Kenneth M. "Elf" Sternberg'
 __email__ = 'elf.sternberg@gmail.com'
 __version__ = '0.1.0'
 
-if sys.version[0:2] == (2, 7):
+if sys.version_info[0:2] >= (2, 6):
-    from ._python27 import install
+    from ._python2 import install
 
-if sys.version[0] >= 3:
+if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
     from ._python3 import install
 
 __all__ = ['install']

polyloader/_python2.py

@@ -64,34 +64,41 @@ class PolyLoader(pkgutil.ImpLoader):
 # the iter_modules; or we provide our own finder and ensure it gets
 # found before the native one.
 
-We actually want to have multiple
+# Why the heck python 2.6 insists on calling finders "importers" is
-# SourceFileFinders, each of which either recognizes the file to be
+# beyond me.  At least in calls loaders "loaders".
 
 class PolyFinder(object):
     def __init__(self, path = None):
         self.path = path
     
-    def find_on_path(self, fullname):
+    def _pl_find_on_path(self, fullname, path=None):
-        fls = ["%s/__init__.%s", "%s.%s"]
+        subname = fullname.split(".")[-1]
-        dirpath = "/".join(fullname.split("."))
+        if subname != fullname and self.path is None:
+            return None
+        # As in the original, we ignore the 'path' argument
+        path = None
+        if self.path is not None:
+            path = [os.path.realpath(self.path)]
 
-        for pth in sys.path:
+        fls = ["%s/__init__.%s", "%s.%s"]
-            pth = os.path.abspath(pth)
         for fp in fls:
             for (compiler, suffix) in PolyLoader._loader_handlers:
                 composed_path = fp % ("%s/%s" % (pth, dirpath), suffix)
                 if os.path.exists(composed_path):
-                        return composed_path
+                    return PolyLoader(composed_path)
+        try:
+            file, filename, etc = imp.find_module(subname, path)
+        except ImportError:
+            return None
+        return ImpLoader(fullname, file, filename, etc)
             
     def find_module(self, fullname, path=None):
-        path = self.find_on_path(fullname)
+        path = self._pl_find_on_path(fullname)
         if path:
             return PolyLoader(path)
-
+        return None
 
 def _install(compiler, suffixes):
 
-                
-
 sys.meta_path.insert(0, MetaImporter())
 iter_importer_modules.register(MetaImporter, meta_iterate_modules)