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Author	brett.cannon
Recipients	brett.cannon, eric.snow, georg.brandl, pitrou, sfeltman
Date	2012-08-17.16:08:34
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
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And this is why we have said people should use the idiom of ``__import__('http.blah'); mod = sys.modules['http.blah']`` if importlib is not used (which is on PyPI and works as far back as Python 2.3), else you will deal with an AttributeError later instead of an ImportError upfront. <grumble>Darn backwards-compatibility</grumble>. Eric's patch looks fine, so I will get it committed today.

And this is why we have said people should use the idiom of ``__import__('http.blah'); mod = sys.modules['http.blah']`` if importlib is not used (which is on PyPI and works as far back as Python 2.3), else you will deal with an AttributeError later instead of an ImportError upfront. <grumble>Darn backwards-compatibility</grumble>.

Eric's patch looks fine, so I will get it committed today.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-08-17 16:08:35	brett.cannon	set	recipients: + brett.cannon, georg.brandl, pitrou, eric.snow, sfeltman
2012-08-17 16:08:35	brett.cannon	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
2012-08-17 16:08:34	brett.cannon	link	issue15715 messages
2012-08-17 16:08:34	brett.cannon	create