[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r43033 - in python/trunk/Lib: distutils/sysconfig.py encodings/init.py (original) (raw)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Wed Mar 15 20:23:39 CET 2006


At 10:33 AM 3/15/2006 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:

Well, absolute imports without the future statement will not use the 5th argument, so they won't break, right? That's what MAL also says. Someone please fix this.

Why is a 5th argument needed to do absolute imports? Shouldn't it suffice to supply a globals argument with no path and an undotted name? ISTM that passing in the builtins dictionary as the globals argument ought to do the trick.



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