[Python-Dev] regrtest.py mystery

[Greg Ewing]

Fredrik Lundh <fredrik@pythonware.com>:

> how do you detect that a module is successfully imported?
> 
> the only way I can think of is "execution reached the end of
> the module", which would probably break considerable amounts
> of code that rely on "temporarily recursive" imports.

If an exception propagates back through an import
statement, the module that it's importing is marked as
broken.

This may result in a single error causing more than one
module to be marked as broken, but I think that's the right
thing to do anyway. E.g. if you import module A which imports
module B which fails, you can't be sure that either A or B
is fit to use, so both should be marked as broken.

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