Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: > it doesn't do a normal import of the `__future__.py` module, it is actually a > compiler directive.
It’s both! The compiler has special handling for this line (pseudo-module), and the interpreter does a regular import that gets the regular python module which can be used for introspection (the third purpose noted in the module doc). ---------- nosy: +eric.araujo _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue44693> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
