pickle and module package

[Stefan Franke]

On Mon, 17 May 1999 22:59:36 +0200, "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at lemburg.com> wrote:

>One thing I have stumbled into when starting off into the
>package business was that:
>
>from MyPackage import ThisModule
>import ThisModule
>
>yield *two* imports of the same module if done from a
>module in the MyPackage directory -- the module is
>initialized twice which causes a lot of trouble sometimes.

Uhh, I just checked this. This is definitely not something I would have
expected. Is there any rationale behind?

Stefan