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
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