Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> writes: > On 12/15/2014 05:36 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > > I'm increasingly of the opinion this is a subtle bug in ‘__import__’ > > that should be fixed instead of worked around.
And other people agree: <URL:https://bugs.python.org/issue21720>. > Of course. But you'll still need to work around it for previous > versions, unless you can say you only support 2.7.10+ (maybe 2.7.9+ if > it gets fixed quick enough). If I can eventually drop the kludge by dropping support for Python <2.7 at some future point (instead of waiting until I can drop Python <3), that would still be an improvement. > Functions that should accept str but barf on unicode have a tendency > to get fixed. I hope you're right. The bug report currently focusses on improving the error message only. -- \ “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little | `\ temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” | _o__) —Benjamin Franklin, 1775-02-17 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
