Now the UTF-8 decoder is set up by default. But everything else, including ASCII, must be reachable through an import. That can be a problem when it is import that needs that module.
It is also a pain that one must open a file in a generic fashion, read the first two lines of a file, use a regex to try to find a specified encoding, and then reopen the file with the encoding found. That's a lot of stat calls and such that can be expensive. To deal with this and other bootstrapping issues I am going to have to expose some more C code in my special version of 3.0 in order to get this to work. Luckily it has partially been done for me thanks to imp.find_module() which does the proper file opening, albeit using the C import code. Once a pull it out to give me basically a custom source code open() function I should be able to move on to the next failing test.
Currently there are seven failing tests (albeit I can't run importlib properly anyway because of the PEP 263 issues). I have until early June to get this all done. Here is to hoping I can pull this off and properly delegate the stdlib reorg so that it all doesn't impact my personal life (which now includes looking for a new apartment for myself).
