Issue 706253: python accepts illegal "import mod.sub as name" syntax (original) (raw)

This issue has been migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/38178

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Created on 2003-03-19 12:44 by amiseler, last changed 2022-04-10 16:07 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (5)
msg15191 - (view)	Author: Alexander Miseler (amiseler)	Date: 2003-03-19 12:44
http://python.org/doc/current/ref/import.html "To avoid confusion, you cannot import modules with dotted names as a different local name. So import module as m is legal, but import module.submod as s is not." sadly the interpreter accepts the illegal form without comment which makes it "semi-legal". packages that rely on this illegal form may cause trouble with costum import implementations (i.e. importing from zip file or similar) tested with 2.2.2 and 2.3a2
msg15192 - (view)	Author: Grant Olson (logistix)	Date: 2003-03-25 22:21
Logged In: YES user_id=699438 Here's a case where I think the documentation should be fixed instead of the bug. Every COM project I do starts with 'import win32com.client as client'. I also don't see how one syntax is any more confusing than the other. And even if the above syntax was illegal, you could still do something like: >>> import win32com.client >>> server = win32com.client If you really wanted to be confusing.
msg15193 - (view)	Author: Brett Cannon (brett.cannon) *	Date: 2003-06-08 22:19
Logged In: YES user_id=357491 That line seems to have been removed from the 2.3 documentation as of revision 1.60 but it was not backported. Need to find out from Martin v. Lowis whether there is a reason he didn't backport it.
msg15194 - (view)	Author: Brett Cannon (brett.cannon) *	Date: 2004-03-23 21:13
Logged In: YES user_id=357491 Fixed in 2.3 and 2.4 (but not in 2.2.3), so closing as out of date.
msg15195 - (view)	Author: Brett Cannon (brett.cannon) *	Date: 2004-03-23 21:13
Logged In: YES user_id=357491 Fixed in 2.3 and 2.4 (but not in 2.2.3), so closing as out of date.