[Python-Dev] Fix import errors to have data (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Aug 3 04:01:35 CEST 2004


> Maybe it could be as simple as saving a snapshot of > sys.modules whenever importing of a module is begun, > and if execution of its body doesn't complete, restoring > the snapshot?

This is exactly what I thought of. It seems to be correct, also with nested imports, since this is a stack-like structure of undoable things.

What happens in the presence of threads, though?

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