Cycles between package imports

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In article <mailman.7281.1150868507.27775.python-list at python.org>,
 "Martin Blais" <blais at furius.ca> wrote:

>On 18 Jun 2006 05:25:14 -0700, John Roth <JohnRoth1 at jhrothjr.com> wrote:
>
>> The general rule is: don't do that. It doesn't work, and the
>> hoops you have to go through to force it to work are so
>> complex and bizzare that they're not worth it.  Redesign
>> the modules so you don't have cyclic dependencies.
>
>This is a matter completely aside the question.

No it isn't. I agree with John Roth.

>Whether it's worth it
>or not depends on the specific case --not included in the example--
>and in the case where it shows up in my code, removing the cycle
>actually made sense (it does, most of the time, but not always).

See, even you are unable to come up with an example where a cyclic 
import makes sense.

In general, the complications they introduce are simply not worth it. 
This was discovered decades ago, during the development of languages 
like Ada and Modula-2 which could do automatic initialization and 
finalization of library modules arranged by the compiler/linker system.