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Author eric.araujo
Recipients StevenHsuYL, docs@python, eric.araujo, steven.daprano
Date 2021-07-23.20:08:21
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> it doesn't do a normal import of the `__future__.py` module, it is actually a compiler directive.

It’s both!  The compiler has special handling for this line (pseudo-module), and the interpreter does a regular import that gets the regular python module which can be used for introspection (the third purpose noted in the module doc).
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