Language design

[Ben Finney]

Mark Janssen <dreamingforward at gmail.com> writes:

> > * Imports are fiendishly complex, hidden below deceptively simple
> >   syntax.
> >
> >   It's a reasonable expectation that one can import a module from a
> >   source code file given its path on the filesystem, but this turns out
> >   to be much more complicated than in many other languages.
>
> Why is this so difficult?

I don't know, you'll have to ask the people who designed it that way.

> Add a Graph class to the collections module (networkx is quite good)
> and simply check for circular imports.

Er? That doesn't address the task of importing a module from a source
code file given its path on the filesystem.

Other languages have the equivalent of ‘include "/path/to/file.py"’, but
Python doesn't. That's the misdesign I'm describing.

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Ben Finney