On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: .. > Nick's right; 0 fails on an import * to pull anything in of interest.
but if the imported module has try: import blocked_module except ImportError: do_something_important() then import_fresh_module() will create a broken module with do_something_important() not executed. > And as > I said on python-checkins -- you can ignore that email, Alexander Too late. I already replied. :-) >-- there > is a historical reason because in Python 2 if you tried an implicit relative > import a value of None met to do an absolute import. This doesn't have that > effect in py3k as explicit relative imports are the only way to do relative > imports (and luckily importlib does the proper thing for this as well =). Is there a problem with this change for 3.x? _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
