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[Python-Dev] Bug in 2to3 concerning import statements?

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sun May 1 20:41:19 EDT 2016 
I agree it's a bug. May I encourage you to file it as such on
bugs.python.org? 2to3 is part of the stdlib.

On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>
wrote:

> Brett Cannon wrote:
>
> There's all sorts of weird stuff going on in that import, like having a
>> dot in the `from` part of the import instead of doing `from .py2exe import
>> mf as modulefinder`.
>>
>
> If I did that, it would try to import mf from the
> py2exe submodule rather than the global one.
>
> In hindsight it was probably a bad idea to name
> the submodule py2exe, but the code worked as
> intended.
>
> My point is that, regardless of anything else,
> 2to3 shouldn't be generating syntactically
> incorrect code. I can understand if it's not
> considered worth fixing, but it's still a bug.
>
>
> --
> Greg
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