On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 5:19 PM Chris Angelico rosuav@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 10:14 AM Gustav O gustav@odinger.se wrote:
I agree — having a warning would be fantastic! Personally, I think the
minor speed drawback of
A speed drawback on every import would almost certainly be too high a
price to pay.
Yes, though if the extra check through the rest of the path were only done when the module is found in the cwd, it may not cost much at all.
-CHB
Maybe this would make a useful excepthook? If an
AttributeError is about to be printed to the console, and the failing
object is a module, *then* look through the path and see if it was
shadowed.
ChrisA
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