Hi Richard, and welcome! My comments are below, interspersed with your comments, which are prefixed with ">". On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 12:44:32PM +0100, Richard Vogel wrote: [...]
Current state:
* Python will search for the first TOP-LEVEL hit when resolving an import statement and search inside there for the remainder part of the import. If it cannot find the symbols it will fail. (Tested on Python 3.8)
Proposed Change:
* If the import fails at some point after finding the first level match: The path is evaluated further until it eventually may be able to resolve the statement completely- o --> Fail later
I'm not exactly sure what your situation is. Perhaps you be a bit more specific? But I'm going to try to take a guess: - your import search path has two or more directories, let's call them "a" and "b"; - in "a" you have a module "foo.py": # a/foo.py spam = 1 - in "b" you have another module also called "foo.py": # b/foo.py spam = 1 eggs = 2 If you say "from foo import eggs" the import system finds a/foo.py first, and fails since there is no "eggs" name in that module. You would prefer the import system to continue searching, find b/foo.py, and import eggs=2 from that module. Is my understanding correct? -- Steven