[New-bugs-announce] [issue17636] Modify IMPORT_FROM to fallback on sys.modules

[Brett Cannon]

New submission from Brett Cannon:

To help with circular imports, IMPORT_FROM should be modified to check sys.modules if a getattr() check fails.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-April/125123.html

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 186059
nosy: brett.cannon, pje
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: test needed
status: open
title: Modify IMPORT_FROM to fallback on sys.modules
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.4

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