Re: [Jython-dev] Lost SyntaxErrors (sometimes) in Jython 2.1 Alpha 1

[Samuele P. <pe...@in...>]

Hi

[Rich Seddon]
> However, by running jdb I found the spot where these are being lost. 
> In PyModule.java, there is a method called "impHook", which has the
> following lines.
> 
>     private static PyObject impHook(String name) {
>         if (silly_list == null) {
>             silly_list = new PyTuple(new PyString[] {
>                                      Py.newString("__doc__"),});
>         }
>         try {
>             return __builtin__.__import__(name, null, null, silly_list);
>         } catch(PyException e) {
>             return null;
>         }
>     }
> 
> The SyntaxError gets caught here, and is never seen again. :-)
> 
> Is there a fix/workaround for this?


I think we could simply remove the try/catch. Any other ideas?
 
Note: (if I remember well) this code is only called if one tries to load a
jython package as:
  
  import jypkg1
  
  jypkg1.jypkg2.foofunc()
  
this is supported by jython but the correct python code would use:
  
  import jypkg1.jypkg2
  
In python one cannot refer to packages without first importing them.
 
regards, Samuele Pedroni.