[Python-Dev] More joy with test_strptime (original) (raw)

Brett C. bac at OCF.Berkeley.EDU
Mon Jul 12 20:54:19 CEST 2004

Tim Peters wrote:

[Brett]

Nuts. Some code somewhere must be importing strptime through time and that is holding a reference to the original copy of 'time' that was imported and then when testsite deletes sys.modules["time"] teststrptime imports 'time' again since it can't find a reference and uses that to monkey-patch which strptime itself never sees since it holds the reference to the original imported 'time'. I can't make time to respond now, but I wanted to make sure to get another copy of that explanation into the archives for posterity .

=) Didn't realize I managed to fit that all into a single sentence. How you guys can stand to allow me to continue to write the Summaries I sometimes question when instances like this come about.

-Brett

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