[Python-Dev] PEP 451 update (original) (raw)

Eric Snow ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com
Sun Oct 27 04:44:03 CET 2013

On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

On 26 October 2013 08:51, PJ Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

Yeah, it actually was to ensure that you could reload a module using a different loader than the one that originally loaded it, e.g. due to a change in path hooks, etc. Yeah, the rationale makes sense, we only missed it due to the lack of a regression test for the behaviour.

I put up a patch that should fix this without a lot of work, including a test that would have caught this.

http://bugs.python.org/issue19413

-eric

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