[Python-Dev] making the import machinery explicit

[Brett Cannon]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 22:03, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> > What about sys.path_importer_cache: all of it or just NullImporter/None
> > entries (or should that be a boolean to this function)? And shouldn't it
> be
> > called reset_import() with the level of changes you are proposing the
> > function make?
>
> Hmm, perhaps the simpler suggestion is: "If you want a clean import
> state, use multiprocessing or the subprocess module to invoke a new
> instance of python" :)
>
>
Yeah, kinda. =) This is why testing import (as you know) is such an utter
pain.

-Brett



>  Cheers,
> Nick.
>
> --
> Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
>
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