[Python-Dev] ImportWarning flood (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Jun 30 21:51:34 CEST 2006

On 6/30/06, Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> wrote:

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:51:17 -0700, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: >On 6/24/06, Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> wrote: >> >Actually, your application was pretty close to being broken a few >> >weeks ago, when Guido wanted to drop the requirement that a package >> >must contain an init file. In that case, "import math" would have >> >imported the directory, and given you an empty package. >> >>But this change was not made, and afaict it is not going to be made. > >Correct. We'll stick with the warning. (At least until Py3k but most >likely also in Py3k.) >

Even given that it emits completely spurious warnings for any package that happens to share a name with a directory in whatever the working path is (say, your home directory)? How about if someone grovels through import.c and figures out how to make the warning information only show up if the import actually fails?

That would work I think. But it's not easy.

-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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