[issue23412] importlib sometimes fails to import a recently created module

Brett Cannon added the comment: Because stat results are cached for performance reasons, it's possible to write to the file system and then try to read/import from it before the modification time for the directory even picks up that there was a change. For this reason there is importlib.invali

[issue23412] importlib sometimes fails to import a recently created module

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[issue23412] importlib sometimes fails to import a recently created module

SilentGhost added the comment: Looks like some sort of race condition. Sleeping for a second before import_module seem to solve the problem. -- components: +Interpreter Core nosy: +SilentGhost, brett.cannon, eric.snow, ncoghlan ___ Python tracker

[issue23412] importlib sometimes fails to import a recently created module

New submission from Richard Dymond: importlib.import_module() sometimes fails to import a module that has just been written to the filesystem, aborting with an ImportError. Example output when executing the attached file with Python 3.3 or 3.4: Wrote tmpwbzb35.py Successfully imported tmpwbz