Better error message on recursive import

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:47:42 +0200, Thomas Guettler wrote:

>> Can you give an example of such a recursive import you want the special
>> exception be raised?
> 
> ===> cat one.py
> from two import testtwo
> def testone():
>      print "one"
> 
> ===> cat two.py
> import one
> def testtwo():
>      print "two"
> 
> ===> python one.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "one.py", line 1, in <module>
>      from two import testtwo
>    File "/mnt/home/tguettler/tmp/rec/two.py", line 1, in <module>
>      import one
>    File "/mnt/home/tguettler/tmp/rec/one.py", line 1, in <module>
>      from two import testtwo
> ImportError: cannot import name testtwo

This is an awkward situation anyway because here are *three* modules 
involved.  You start `one.py` which will be imported as `__main__`.  
`__main__` imports `two` and `two` imports a *new* module `one`!  Which 
tries to import `testtwo` from `two` which doesn't exist at that time.  
Even if you rearrange the code to load properly `one.py` is loaded and 
executed *twice* and you end up with two distinct modules generated from 
that file.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch