[Python-Dev] regrtest.py mystery

[Fredrik Lundh]

greg wrote:
> 
> > 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.

how do you detect that a module is successfully imported?

the only way I can think of is "execution reached the end of
the module", which would probably break considerable amounts
of code that rely on "temporarily recursive" imports.

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