I had some modules with circular imports and I only discovered that this was a problem when I tried to discover why my modules were being reimported constantly. I would suggest that this code be changed to log an error that explicitly tells you that there's a circular import, and what the consequences are.
# Check for a child which refers to one of its # ancestors. Hopefully this will never occur. If # it does we will force a reload every time to # highlight there is a problem. if label in ancestors: # LOG HELPFUL ERROR HERE return True Also, I still chafe every time I have to write: sidewinder_dir = r'C:\Docume~1\Dan\MyDocu~1\PYROOT\sidewinder\\' from mod_python import apache session = apache.import_module(sidewinder_dir+'session.py') config = apache.import_module(sidewinder_dir+'config.py') Instead of: import session import config My handler imports modules like so: IMPORT_PATH = [config.server_options['sidewinder_dir'], config.web['root']] apache.import_module(mpath, path=IMPORT_PATH) Which works great, but when those modules import something I have to use the ugly mess above. Maybe you and I could think of a better way? I'd like if I could just add an option globally to my httpd.conf like: PythonOption ChildrenAlwaysInheritImportPath On Or maybe add another parameter to import_module like: apache.import_module(mpath, path=IMPORT_PATH, inherit=True) Or? Thanks, -Dan
