[Python-Dev] requirements for moving __import__ over to importlib?

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:23 AM, PJ Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> What's the downside in that case?  You're trying to import something that
> just changed in the last fraction of a second...  why?

I don't know if it's normal in the Python world, but these sorts of
race conditions occur most annoyingly when a single process changes a
file, then attempts to import it. If you open a file, write to it,
explicitly close it, and then load it, you would expect to read back
what you wrote, not the version that was there previously.

Chris Angelico