[Python-Dev] Fix import errors to have data

[Christian Tismer]

Tim Peters wrote:

> [Phillip J. Eby]
> 
>>It's worse than that...  'ihooks' and 'imputil', for example, both do:
>>
>>    exec code in module.__dict__
>>
>>so they'd need to be changed to support this fix as well.  (Not to mention
>>any third-party import hooks...)
> 
> 
> Ouch.  For that matter, they also avoid the "choke point" Sunday
> night's patch relied on.  So there are actually no choke points for
> any part of the import process now.  Maybe after each bytecode we
> could make the eval loop look to see whether sys.modules had been
> changed <wink>.

:-(

Life is so cruel...

I agree it is a little harder, ahem :-)

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