> On 8 Nov 2019, at 07:52, Steve Barnes <gadgetst...@live.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I hope that his hasn’t been discussed to death in the past but I quite often
> encounter cases where developers have unwittingly created a file or directory
> that has a name clash with either a system import or a pip installed library
> import. This can be very confusing to new users! And, of course, as the
> number of core libraries and the installable ecosystem grow this potential
> problem is growing all of the time.
I have been bitten by this too. It seems to me like the import system could
raise an error in these cases. This seems like it should solve these problems
and avoid the need for new syntax.
I guess there's a performance problem with this though, since the import system
then can't early return?
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