[Python-Dev] a strange case (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry@python.org
16 May 2003 14:44:39 -0400

On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 14:36, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

Here's a strange case we just ran across, led along by a typo in an import statement. This is using the head of the 2.2.x maintenance branch; I've not tested this against the trunk yet.

>>> import os >>> class Foo(os): ... pass ... >>> Foo <module '?' (built-in)> I suspect this isn't intentional behavior. ;-)

No, it's not, and in 2.3 you get an error (albeit a TypeError with a rather unhelpful message). I guess the "fix" hasn't been backported.

-Barry