On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Georg Brandl
Am 18.11.2010 16:22, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:14:35 +0100 Tarek Ziadé
wrote: I don't know of this was mentioned before, or how hard it would be. But it would be nice if Python had a specific "CircularImportError" raised in that case, or something.. That would be a fabulous hint for developers.
It can't be an error, since circular imports are supported. There could be a warning, but IMO it would need to be silenced by default (which means ImportWarning isn't appropriate).
I thought ImportWarning was silenced by default?
Anyway, I don't think that would be helpful for developers, who would need to turn on the warnings explicitly to see them. But to think of that, you already need to suspect circular imports, and then it's easy to see it from the traceback anyway.
mmm I am not talking about warnings here. As Ian said, and to be more explicit the use case is: Your program crashed with an error because you have a circular import -- that's a bug you need to fix. How can we tell it in a more explicit fashion that an AttributeError which is not very meaningful in this case ?
Georg
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