On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 16:56:38 -0700, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Ryan Gonzalez <rym...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Why not just check the path of the imported modules and compare it with the > > Python library directory? > > It works, but it requires that everyone who could run into this > problem carefully add some extra guard code to every stdlib import > statement, and in practice nobody will (or at least, not until after > they've already gotten bitten by this at least once... at which point > they no longer need it). > > Given that AFAICT there's no reason this couldn't be part of the > default import system's functionality and "just work" for everyone, if > I were going to spend time on trying to fix this I'd probably target > that :-). > > (I guess the trickiest bit would be to find an efficient and > maintainable way to check whether a given package name is present in > the stdlib.)
For Idle, though, it sounds like a very viable strategy, and that's what Laura is concerned about. --David _______________________________________________ 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/archive%40mail-archive.com
