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import behaviour on Mac and Unix

Steven D. Majewski sdm7g at virginia.edu
Tue Aug 8 11:29:02 EDT 2000 
On 8 Aug 2000, Igor V. Rafienko wrote:

 
> However, on Mac, the *exactly* same file (except perhaps for
> tranformation of Unix style newlines into Mac style newlines) can be
> imported, *but* module bar contains nothing but __doc__, __file__ and
> __builtins__. There is *no* reference to foo.


Are you SURE that the Mac file doesn't in fact have Unix newlines ? 
You would see that behaviour in that case. 


> In both cases, it's a standard Python-1.5.2 distribution. Furthermore,
> just to underline -- import does not fail on Mac, it simply does not
> fetch function/class names from the imported module. 

It should probably be considered a bug that we get this silent failure
for the wrong line endings. I would expect that it would fail, but 
I haven't looked at why it gets thru without an error. 


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