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Eric Gustavson commented on AIRFLOW-2243:
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+1 I have been experiencing unexpected import behavior with airflow
(specifically composer 1.9.0 with python 3)
> airflow seems to load modules multiple times
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> Key: AIRFLOW-2243
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRFLOW-2243
> Project: Apache Airflow
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: sulphide
> Priority: Major
>
> airflow uses the builtin imp.load_source to load modules, but the
> documentation (for python 2) says:
> [https://docs.python.org/2/library/imp.html#imp.load_source]
> {{imp.}}{{load_source}}(_name_, _pathname_[, _file_])
> Load and initialize a module implemented as a Python source file and return
> its module object. If the module was already initialized, it will be
> initialized _again_. The _name_ argument is used to create or access a module
> object. The_pathname_ argument points to the source file. The _file_ argument
> is the source file, open for reading as text, from the beginning. It must
> currently be a real file object, not a user-defined class emulating a file.
> Note that if a properly matching byte-compiled file (with suffix {{.pyc}} or
> {{.pyo}}) exists, it will be used instead of parsing the given source file.
>
>
> this means that airflow behaves differently from a typical python program in
> that a module may be imported multiple times, which could have unexpected
> effects for those relying on the typical python import semantics.
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-airflow/blob/master/airflow/models.py#L300
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