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Author	ammar2
Recipients	Oliver Etchebarne (drmad), ammar2
Date	2017-03-15.21:06:17
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Message-id	<1489611977.57.0.639697835706.issue29821@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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As per discussion with haypo on irc, this is not a bug since essentially you've made a file which shadows the following stdlib module https://docs.python.org/3/library/copy.html When shutil goes to import the copy module, your copy module is given higher priority in the import machinery which is why your code gets executed. You can read up more about this here: http://python-notes.curiousefficiency.org/en/latest/python_concepts/import_traps.html#the-name-shadowing-trap

As per discussion with haypo on irc, this is not a bug since essentially you've made a file which shadows the following stdlib module https://docs.python.org/3/library/copy.html

When shutil goes to import the copy module, your copy module is given higher priority in the import machinery which is why your code gets executed. You can read up more about this here: http://python-notes.curiousefficiency.org/en/latest/python_concepts/import_traps.html#the-name-shadowing-trap

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Date	User	Action	Args
2017-03-15 21:06:17	ammar2	set	recipients: + ammar2, Oliver Etchebarne (drmad)
2017-03-15 21:06:17	ammar2	set	messageid: <1489611977.57.0.639697835706.issue29821@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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