Message 84922 - Python tracker

Message84922

Author	ncoghlan
Recipients	brett.cannon, bronger, dcjim, gvanrossum, jhylton, loewis, ncoghlan, tim.peters
Date	2009-03-31.21:42:43
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Message-id	<1238535766.23.0.468487714769.issue992389@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I just had a thought: we may be able to eliminate this behaviour without mucking about in the package globals. What if the import semantics were adjusted so that, as a last gasp effort before bailing out with an ImportError, the import process checked sys.modules again with the full module name? Not a fully fleshed out idea at this point (and possibly symptomatic of not being fully awake yet), but I'll bring it up in the current python-dev thread anyway.

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I just had a thought: we may be able to eliminate this behaviour without
mucking about in the package globals.

What if the import semantics were adjusted so that, as a last gasp
effort before bailing out with an ImportError, the import process
checked sys.modules again with the full module name?

Not a fully fleshed out idea at this point (and possibly symptomatic of
not being fully awake yet), but I'll bring it up in the current
python-dev thread anyway.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2009-03-31 21:42:46	ncoghlan	set	recipients: + ncoghlan, gvanrossum, tim.peters, loewis, jhylton, brett.cannon, dcjim, bronger
2009-03-31 21:42:46	ncoghlan	set	messageid: <1238535766.23.0.468487714769.issue992389@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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