Brett Cannon added the comment: I think the documentation is wrong. Going all the way back to Python 2.7, you will see that importing a module emits IMPORT_NAME as the bytecode. That bytecode only looks for __import__ in the builtin namespace: https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Python/ceval.c#l2588 . That then calls PyImport_ImportModuleLevel(): https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Python/bltinmodule.c#l49 . That then just ends up executing import.
If you look at PyImport_Import() in Python 2.7 that comes the closest to what the docs reference, but that still uses __builtins__.__import__ based on finding __builtins__ from the global namespace: https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Python/import.c#l2825 . But that isn't directly called by import itself and is just a C-level API. If you look in Python 3, then you will see that as far back as Python 3.3 the code in importlib is more or less the same: __import__ is used when importing a parent and then importlib is used for the rest: https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/default/Lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py#l944 . This was introduced so that the accelerated C version of __import__ would be used to import the parent rather than automatically going down the pure Python path for stuff such as resolving names and such. This was never done to explicitly import using something defined in the globals namespace (although this does lead to supporting it). And if you go all the way back to Python 3.0 you will notice that getting __import__ from the builtins namespace only has been in place: https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/3.0/Python/ceval.c#l1959 . So I think the key point here is that the bytecode for IMPORT_NAME doesn't match the docs. So the question is do we want to add the feature to Python 3 to look for import in the globals or would we rather leave it as is and fix the docs? ---------- title: _find_and_load_unlocked doesn't always use __import__ -> docs claim __import__ checked for in globals, but IMPORT_NAME bytecode does not _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25500> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
