On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Michael Foord <[email protected]> wrote: > Some people workaround the potential for bugs caused by __main__ reimporting > itself by doing it *deliberately*. Glyf even recommends it as good practise. > ;-) > > http://glyf.livejournal.com/60326.html > > So - the fix you suggest would *break* this code. Raising a warning > wouldn't... (and would eventually make this workaround unnecessary.)
With my change, that code would work just fine. "from myproject.gizmo import main" and "from __main__ import main" would just return the same object, whereas currently they return something different. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
