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Author brett.cannon
Recipients brett.cannon, eric.snow, georg.brandl, pitrou, sfeltman
Date 2012-08-17.16:08:34
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And this is why we have said people should use the idiom of ``__import__('http.blah'); mod = sys.modules['http.blah']`` if importlib is not used (which is on PyPI and works as far back as Python 2.3), else you will deal with an AttributeError later instead of an ImportError upfront. <grumble>Darn backwards-compatibility</grumble>.

Eric's patch looks fine, so I will get it committed today.
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