[Python-Dev] Reading Python source file

[Guido van Rossum]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 8:20 AM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17.11.15 11:59, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>
>> I don't think these situations are all that common, though,
>> so reading in the full source code before compiling it
>> sounds like a reasonable approach.
>>
>> We use the same simplification in eGenix PyRun's emulation of
>> the Python command line interface and it has so far not
>> caused any problems.
>
> Current implementation of import system went the same way. As a result
> importing the script as a module and running it with command line can have
> different behaviours in corner cases.

I'm confused. *Of course* these two behaviors differ, since Python
uses a different __name__. Not sure how this relates to the REPL.

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