[Python-Dev] ImportWarning flood
Guido van Rossum
guido at python.org
Sat Jul 1 04:55:03 CEST 2006
It's up to the release manager now to decide whether the pitchforks at
Google or the pitchforks in the larger Python community are sharper.
;-)
--Guido (ducks)
On 6/30/06, Shane Hathaway <shane at hathawaymix.org> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > On 6/30/06, Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> wrote:
> >> How about if someone grovels through import.c and figures out how to make
> >> the warning information only show up if the import actually fails?
> >
> > That would work I think. But it's not easy.
>
> I just posted a patch intended to solve this. With my patch,
> find_module() collects the warnings in a list and only generates
> ImportWarning if no package is found. It works, but I have not done
> extensive testing.
>
> I also discovered and tried to resolve what appear to be memory leaks
> involving the "copy" variable. If the ImportWarning patch doesn't fly,
> I'll be happy to post a different patch that only fixes the leaks.
>
> The patch is #1515361:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1515361&group_id=5470&atid=305470
>
> Shane
>
>
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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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