[Python-Dev] More joy with test_strptime

[Tim Peters]

[Brett]
> Nuts.  Some code somewhere must be importing strptime through time and
> that is holding a reference to the original copy of 'time' that was
> imported and then when test_site deletes sys.modules["time"]
> test_strptime imports 'time' again since it can't find a reference and
> uses that to monkey-patch which _strptime itself never sees since it
> holds the reference to the original imported 'time'.

I can't make time to respond now, but I wanted to make sure to get
another copy of that explanation into the archives for posterity
<wink>.