[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-667770 ] import C API mess

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Bugs item #667770, was opened at 2003-01-14 10:02
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Assigned to: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Summary: import C API mess

Initial Comment:
There are too many different C-level APIs for importing
a module.

Many of them have the nasty property that they can try
to do a relative import in the context of the nearest
Python stack frame, where that is not what the C code
intended.

This needs to be cleaned up.

Example use case: time.strptime() is now a C wrapper
that imports the _strptime module; but if you follow
the path it takes to import, it's quite an amazing
journey. It should cut all of that short by looking in
sys.modules['_strptime'] first. (But what about
restricted execution? Well _strptime.py ought to be safe.)

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