On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 04:32:20AM +0000, Steve Barnes wrote: > I love the idea of __imported__ but would like to suggest taking it > even further - why not, rather that a bool for __imported__, have the > value of it be either None (if __name__ == "__main__")
What if you imported `__main__`? > or the __name__ of the module that it is being imported from. What if it has been imported from many modules, as most modules will be? > This could potentially > be useful in trying to resolve circular imports, imports via importlib > or exec, etc. "Potentially" useful? How? By the way, exec doesn't do an import of the code being run. -- Steve _______________________________________________ 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/BMANTUMJEK4FJUVWN4XZOWMTTUOM5UD2/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/