Is this Python 2 or 3? In Python 2 it means an attempt to perform a relative import failed but an absolute in succeeded, e.g. from idlelib you imported os, so import tried idlelib.is and then os. You should definitely consider using a future import to guarantee absolute imports.
On Wednesday, April 16, 2014 2:57:35 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 4/16/2014 12:25 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > > Am 14.04.14 23:51, schrieb Brett Cannon: > >> It was realized during PyCon that since we are freezing importlib we > >> could now consider freezing all the modules to cut out having to stat or > >> read them from disk. > > [...] > >> Thoughts? > > > > They still get read from disk, except that it is the operating system > > that does the reading. So what you really save is the access to many > > tiny files; something that can also be achieved with the zipfile import. > > So I wonder how your all-frozen binary compares to a standard binary > > with a python35.zip. > > > > If it is comparable, I'd rather extend on that route, i.e. promote > > putting the standard library into a zip file in the default > > installation, and also find a way where (say) /usr/bin/hg could > > conveniently specify a zip file that will contain the Mercurial > > byte code. For example, we could support a -Z option for the interpreter > > which would allow to append a zip file to a script that gets put on > > sys.path. > > This could be useful for Idle also, as its startup is noticeably > sluggish and could definitely stand to be zippier. About 50 Idle modules > are imported in the user process and, I presume, at least as many in the > Idle process. > > PS. In the user process sys.modules, there are numerous null entries > like these: > >>> sys.modules['idlelib.os'] > >>> sys.modules['idlelib.tokenize'] > >>> sys.modules['idlelib.io'] > >>> <etcetera> > > Does anyone know the most likely reason? > > -- > Terry Jan Reedy > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ > brett%40python.org >
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