[Python-Dev] Document None values in sys.modules?

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Fri Jul 24 04:38:07 CEST 2009


2009/7/23 Brett Cannon <brett at python.org>:
> None in Python 3.1 is really useless in terms of its semantics in relative
> imports; importlib doesn't support it and still passes as __import__ (at
> least last time I ran the test suite that way). I thought we had agreed a
> while back that supporting None was not warranted in Python 3.0? Otherwise I
> will do whatever work is necessary for this to happen.

I think it's still nice for the rare cases where you need to trick a
module into thinking another one doesn't exist.

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Regards,
Benjamin


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