[Python-Dev] python3k : imp.find_module raises SyntaxError (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Dec 1 11:39:47 CET 2010

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

Nick Coghlan wrote:

For the directory-as-module-not-package idea ... you would need to be very careful with it, since all the files would be sharing a common globals() namespace. One of the things I like about Python's module system is that once I know which module a name was imported from, I also know which file to look in for its definition. If a module can be spread over several files, that feature would be lost.

There are many potential problems with the idea, I just chose to mention one of the ones that could easily make the affected code break :)

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

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