[Python-Dev] regrtest.py mystery

[Greg Ewing]

Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>:

> He deemed the situation where M is loaded-but-missing-from-sys.modules
> to be even worse than for M to be left loaded-but-broken therein.

Maybe modules should have a this-module-is-broken flag which
is set when the module fails to import properly, and which
causes an exception on any further attempt to reference a
name in it.

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