Package name with '.' in them: Python Bug ?

[Yannick Patois]

Stephen Robert Norris wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:12:03 +0100, Yannick Patois wrote:
> The only potential bug here is that perhaps python should have raised an
> error when the import happened.

The doc explicitly says:
"his function does not handle hierarchical module names (names 
containing dots)."

So you may say that it's up to the programmer to comply with the doc, 
and shouldnt expect things to work well if not.

But, I dont want to handle a hierarchical module: just a non 
hierarchical one that appends to have a dot in it's name, and it's not 
so explicit that this would break.

The fact that it "almost" work is even more strange, and error prone.

But I dont know, I wont say that this has to be fixed in any way outside 
of the programmer's code.

	Yannick

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