[Python-ideas] Module local namespaces

[Guido van Rossum]

On 1/3/07, Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu> wrote:
> -1 .  The only thing that possibly should be fixed is that modules
> should only be inserted into sys.modules after they have been imported
> completely and correctly.

I agree, but there's the wrinkle that during recursive imports you
want partially-imported modules to be importable. I believe we once
agreed on a solution but I don't recall what it was. Does anybody
remember?

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