Hi Richard, and welcome! My comments are below, interspersed with your comments, which are prefixed with ">".
On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 12:44:32PM +0100, Richard Vogel wrote: [...] > Current state: > > * Python will search for the first TOP-LEVEL hit when resolving an > import statement and search inside there for the remainder part of > the import. If it cannot find the symbols it will fail. (Tested on > Python 3.8) > > Proposed Change: > > * If the import fails at some point after finding the first level > match: The path is evaluated further until it eventually may be able > to resolve the statement completely- > o --> Fail later I'm not exactly sure what your situation is. Perhaps you be a bit more specific? But I'm going to try to take a guess: - your import search path has two or more directories, let's call them "a" and "b"; - in "a" you have a module "foo.py": # a/foo.py spam = 1 - in "b" you have another module also called "foo.py": # b/foo.py spam = 1 eggs = 2 If you say "from foo import eggs" the import system finds a/foo.py first, and fails since there is no "eggs" name in that module. You would prefer the import system to continue searching, find b/foo.py, and import eggs=2 from that module. Is my understanding correct? -- Steven _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/STZKKRL5L2HWFO3VQB5VRIXCC2O2VULN/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/