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Tue Jan 8 17:58:29 CET 2013 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-January/123524.html

Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> wrote:
> 
>     pickle always looks up sys.modules['xml.etree.ElementTree']. Perhaps we
>     could improve something, but this requirement is rather special; personally
>     I'm okay with switching sys.modules explicitly in the tests, because that
>     reminds me of what pickle does.
> 
> 
> Wouldn?t it be be better if import_fresh_module or some alternative function
> could do that for you? I mean, wipe out the import cache for certain modules I
> don't want to be found?

For a single test, perhaps. ContextAPItests.test_pickle() from test_decimal
would look quite strange if import_fresh_module was used repeatedly.

Stefan Krah

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