None in sys.modules.values()?

[Rainer Deyke]

"Walter Dörwald" <walter at bnbt.de> wrote in message
news:8pg924$j8k$1 at nnrp1.deja.com...
> Python 2.0b1 seems to put stuff other than
> modules in sys.modules:
>
> > python
> Python 2.0b1 (#1, Sep  7 2000, 13:31:10)
> [GCC 2.95.2 19991024 (release)] on linux2
> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import sys
> >>> type(sys.modules["encodings.codecs"])
> <type 'None'>
>
> What's happening here?

This is an optimization related to imports from within packages.  Basically,
it says that 'encodings.codecs' does not exist, so any attempt to import
'codecs' from within the pacakage 'encodings' will get the global module
'codecs' instead of looking for a module named 'codecs' within package
'encodings'.


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