[Python-Dev] unexpected import behaviour

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> That said, I really don't think catching such a rare error is worth
> *any* runtime overhead. Just making "__main__" and the real module
> name refer to the same object in sys.modules is a different matter,
> but I'm not confident enough that I fully grasp the implications to do
> it without gathering feedback from a wider audience.

If you make sys.module['__main__'] and sys.module['modname'] the same
(let's call it mod), what will be the value of mod.__name__?