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Tue Jul 13 22:39:46 CEST 2010 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-checkins/2010-July/095220.html

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> Can I ask why you did this?

0 does not block import in py3k:

>>> import sys
>>> sys.modules['time'] = 0
>>> import time
>>> time
0

I ran into this problem while working on datetime.py tests.  I asked
on python-dev and Nick said it was an oversight.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-July/101883.html

> And just for historical background, the reason this was originally 0 instead
> of None is that before absolute imports an entry in None was used to force
> an absolute import instead of a relative import in a package. This doesn't
> come into play in Python 3, though.

I was not planning to backport to 2.x.  Is there a problem with this
change in 3.x?

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