On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 07:08:06PM +0100, Robin Becker wrote:
> The regression may well be a platform issue. I am by no means an expert at
> building python; I followed a recipe from the ARCH PKGBUILD of some time

I meant the change in the diff we were suspecting was supposed to be
"Windows" specific. But interesting that it was observed in ARCH. The
non-windows piece of changes were probably responsible

> You guys can certainly develop language changes faster than us maintainers
> can use them; the dead hand of past usage is a real handicap.

I was thinking in terms of Bug-Fix (https://bugs.python.org/issue43105)
that is causing an interesting behavior change (still not certain to
call this a regression).

> I have managed a smaller example which breaks for me in arch linux latest.
> 
> The self contained code is here
> 
> https://www.reportlab.com/ftp/timport-310b1.py
> 
> I switched to using importlib.import_module as I think that can now always be 
> used in the versions we support.

Thanks for this report, Robin. 

I will reference this in the issue43105, which has probably has the
context to this.

-- 
Senthil
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