Doubley imported module caused devastating bug

[Daniel Stutzbach]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

> I believe that modules are imported only once
>

That's *mostly* true, but try this one:

A.py:
print 'Importing A'
import B

B.py:
print 'Importing B'
import A

Cashew:/tmp$ python2.5 B.py
Importing B
Importing A
Importing B

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