On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 6:37 AM Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>
> On 11/3/21 12:21 PM, Florian Wetschoreck wrote:
>
>  > In order to prevent confusion, I want to point out that the primary 
> scenario that I meant is not that the file imports
>  > itself but another file in the same directory with the name of a module 
> that is also installed in site-packages. Not
>  > sure if I made that clear in my original post?
>
> Maybe if the module-level AttributeError included the complete path/filename 
> of the module?  It would then be much more
> easily discernible that the imported "pandas" is not the correct one.
>

I like this idea. It already happens with a from-import. A cursory
look at Objects/moduleobject.c suggests that it'd be one more lookup
in the error handling in module_getattro, pretty doable.

ChrisA
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