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[Python-Dev] PEP 451 update

Eric Snow ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com
Sun Oct 27 04:44:03 CET 2013 
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26 October 2013 08:51, PJ Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, it actually was to ensure that you could reload a module using a
>> different loader than the one that originally loaded it, e.g. due to a
>> change in path hooks, etc.
>
> Yeah, the rationale makes sense, we only missed it due to the lack of
> a regression test for the behaviour.

I put up a patch that should fix this without a lot of work, including
a test that would have caught this.

http://bugs.python.org/issue19413

-eric
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