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On 02.08.2015 05:53, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> When invoked this way, the module cs.app.maildb that is being
> executed is actually the module named "__main__". If some other
> piece of code imports "cs.app.maildb" they get a _different_
> instance
On 02Aug2015 18:18, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
* if you don't wish to do that, you're screwed, and I think that the
best you can do is program defensively by detecting the problem
afte
On 02Aug2015 17:41, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 01:53 pm, Cameron Simpson wrote:
Maybe this should be over in python-ideas, since there is a proposal down
the bottom of this message. But first the background...
I've just wasted a silly amount of time debugging an issue that reall
On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> * if you don't wish to do that, you're screwed, and I think that the
>> best you can do is program defensively by detecting the problem
>> after the event and bailing out:
>>
>>
On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> * if you don't wish to do that, you're screwed, and I think that the
> best you can do is program defensively by detecting the problem
> after the event and bailing out:
>
> # untested
> import __main__
> import myactualfilename
>
On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 01:53 pm, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Maybe this should be over in python-ideas, since there is a proposal down
> the bottom of this message. But first the background...
>
> I've just wasted a silly amount of time debugging an issue that really I
> know about, but had
On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> What are the implications of modifying the python invocation:
>
> python -m cs.app.maildb
>
> to effectively do this (Python pseudo code):
>
> M = importlib.import("cs.app.maildb")
> M.__name__ = '__main__'
> sys.modules['__main__'] = M
