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Sun Aug 1 23:03:32 CEST 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-August/046585.html

Guido van Rossum wrote:

>>Circular imports, to be made consistent, would need
>>something like a final "commit" after all imports succeeded.
> 
> 
> Silly idea.  Typically, circular imports aren't planned, they just
> happen, and (usually) just happen to work.

Yes, you name it, if you are talking about allowing circular
imports without precautions and not expecting problems.

Like circular references which aren't planned, they just happen,
but they truely work fine after GC was introduced.
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