Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Mon Mar 10 15:01:49 CET 2014

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On Mar 10, 2014, at 11:25 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

>__file__ is expected to always be set (including when loaded from a zipfile

Actually, __file__ is an optional attribute on modules since PEP 420 and
Python 3.2.  It's *usually* there, but unlike in previous version of Python,
if the module doesn't actually come from a "file", there's no longer a
requirement to craft some mythical value for it if it doesn't make sense.

-Barry

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