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Mon Aug 2 06:49:38 CEST 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-August/046596.html

> That might be over-cautious.  It's probably safe to keep modules whose body 
> code executed without error.

No, it's not. If A and B import each other, and A fails after
importing B, then B ends up with a reference to a broken A
even though it executed without error.

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[Python-Dev] Fix import errors to have data