On 6/30/06, Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:51:17 -0700, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >On 6/24/06, Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >Actually, your application *was* pretty close to being broken a few > >> >weeks ago, when Guido wanted to drop the requirement that a package > >> >must contain an __init__ file. In that case, "import math" would have > >> >imported the directory, and given you an empty package. > >> > >>But this change was *not* made, and afaict it is not going to be made. > > > >Correct. We'll stick with the warning. (At least until Py3k but most > >likely also in Py3k.) > > > > Even given that it emits completely spurious warnings for any package that > happens to share a name with a directory in whatever the working path is > (say, your home directory)? > > How about if someone grovels through import.c and figures out how to make > the warning information only show up if the import actually fails?
That would work I think. But it's not easy. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
