Barry A. Warsaw added the comment: More rationale from the thread:
> The surprising part is that it also happens for explicit relative > imports. I'm guessing that part was unintentional and simply not > noticed when PEP 328 was implemented. > No, that must also have been intentional, because even when you use relative import, the module you imported knows its full name, and that full name is used as its key in sys.modules. If someone else uses absolute import for the same module they should still get the same module object. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24029> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
