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Mon Aug 2 03:37:42 CEST 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-August/046591.html

> > 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.

I thought Christian meant this was something that would
be done automatically, not something the user would have
to do explicitly.

Maybe it could be as simple as saving a snapshot of
sys.modules whenever importing of a module is begun,
and if execution of its body doesn't complete, restoring
the snapshot?

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