Message 165612 - Python tracker

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Author	ncoghlan
Recipients	Arfrever, brett.cannon, chris.jerdonek, docs@python, eric.araujo, eric.smith, gennad, ncoghlan
Date	2012-07-16.14:22:20
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Message-id	<1342448540.74.0.192563878944.issue14787@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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At the very least, the pkgutil docs need to state clearly that walk_packages only works properly with sys.path entries, and the constraint feature may not descend into packages correctly if an entry is shadowed by a sys.modules entry or an entry earlier on sys.meta_path or sys.path.

At the very least, the pkgutil docs need to state clearly that walk_packages only works properly with sys.path entries, and the constraint feature may not descend into packages correctly if an entry is shadowed by a sys.modules entry or an entry earlier on sys.meta_path or sys.path.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-07-16 14:22:20	ncoghlan	set	recipients: + ncoghlan, brett.cannon, eric.smith, eric.araujo, Arfrever, chris.jerdonek, docs@python, gennad
2012-07-16 14:22:20	ncoghlan	set	messageid: <1342448540.74.0.192563878944.issue14787@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2012-07-16 14:22:20	ncoghlan	link	issue14787 messages
2012-07-16 14:22:20	ncoghlan	create