[Python-Dev] Bug in 2to3 concerning import statements? (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun May 1 19:42:35 EDT 2016

Brett Cannon wrote:

There's all sorts of weird stuff going on in that import, like having a dot in the from part of the import instead of doing from .py2exe_ _import mf as modulefinder.

If I did that, it would try to import mf from the py2exe submodule rather than the global one.

In hindsight it was probably a bad idea to name the submodule py2exe, but the code worked as intended.

My point is that, regardless of anything else, 2to3 shouldn't be generating syntactically incorrect code. I can understand if it's not considered worth fixing, but it's still a bug.

-- Greg

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