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Author brett.cannon
Recipients antoine.pietri, brett.cannon
Date 2013-06-05.21:39:29
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It can't. The AttributeError is in the executing module code, not import itself so there is no reasonable way to tell that the failure was because of a circular loop in the import and not simply because you tried to get at an attribute that doesn't exist for some other reason.
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