[Python-Dev] making the import machinery explicit (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Mon Apr 16 04:25:01 CEST 2012


On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 22:03, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote: > What about sys.pathimportercache: all of it or just NullImporter/None > entries (or should that be a boolean to this function)? And shouldn't it be > called resetimport() with the level of changes you are proposing the > function make?

Hmm, perhaps the simpler suggestion is: "If you want a clean import state, use multiprocessing or the subprocess module to invoke a new instance of python" :) Yeah, kinda. =) This is why testing import (as you know) is such an utter pain.

-Brett

Cheers, Nick.

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