[Python-ideas] Detecting circular imports ?

[Ian Bicking]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:

> > If you use the "from module import something" form it will be an
> > ImportError. If you do "import module" and then "module.something" you
> will
> > see an AttributeError. These are the ones that can be confusing.
>
> Yes that's the case I was thinking of. After years of Python I can
> still get trapped on those. But maybe that's just me :)
>

I certainly have problems with circular imports (especially involving
__init__.py), and (as far as I've noticed) the error messages are seldom
helpful unless you happen to be experienced in the problem and remember to
look for circular imports.  Simply giving a better error message for this
case would solve the problem in my opinion, without the complexity of
actually making anything work that doesn't work now.

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Ian Bicking  |  http://blog.ianbicking.org
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