On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:23 PM Random832 <random...@fastmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2021, at 18:44, Chris Jerdonek wrote: > > But to issue a warning when a standard module is being overridden like > > I was suggesting, wouldn’t you also need to know whether the name of > > the module being imported is a standard name, which is what > > says.module_names provides? > > I don't think the warning would be only useful for stdlib modules... has > any thought been given to warning when a module being imported from the > current directory / script directory is the same as an installed package? > Related to this, I wonder if another application of sys.stdlib_module_names could be for installers: When installing a new package, a warning could be issued if the package is attempting to install a package with a name already in sys.stdlib_module_names. I don't know off-hand what happens if one were to try to do that today.. --Chris >
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