Re: [Gramps-devel] 1.0.7: Reloading plugins doesn't flush previous errors?

[Alex R. <sh...@al...>]

On 11/30/2004 01:31:29 PM, Eero Tamminen wrote:
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> > I think I found a bug in Python: any module with an error that fails
> > to load, is loaded without complaints if you ask again. E.g. the
> > following file (named e.g. a.py):
> [...]
> > So simply re-importing the failed plugins does not let us notice
> > errors. The reloading kinda works, but if the file has changed
> > (supposedly, the developer has corrected the errors) then the
> > reported line numbers will be off. They would correspond to
> > the old parsing of the original file.
> >
> > It's a mess and I'm open to suggestions. Maybe we should file bug
> > report with Python? I would expect that the erroneous code should
> > always complain on import.
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> I think this is the thing they've fixed in Python 2.4:
> 	http://www.python.org/2.4/highlights.html
> (failed import cleanup)

Yep, I saw that two a few days ago, when the rc was released :-)
At least I'm not completely crazy,
Alex

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