[issue14967] distutils2.utils.resolve_name cannot be implemented to give correct errors in all situations

[Ronny Pfannschmidt]

New submission from Ronny Pfannschmidt <ronny.pfannschmidt at gmail.com>:

due to the lack of a marker that denotes where the module ends and the attribute starts, unrelated import errors can break the try&error chain at unexpected places and the code can pass on to the recursive getattr chain, giving a completely different error instead of the real error

this is not solvable without a marker or really nasty hacks o track subsequent imports

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assignee: eric.araujo
components: Distutils2
messages: 161990
nosy: Ronny.Pfannschmidt, alexis, eric.araujo, tarek
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: distutils2.utils.resolve_name cannot be implemented to give correct errors in all situations

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