alex, 3 months ago

I've inherited some Python code that calls import('somepkg.module, fromlist=[''])
Has anyone seen this elsewhere?Is there a significance of an empty string in fromlist?
Current guess is it's a bug, or a workaround for Python 2.4 era behaviour. The code is https://github.com/mitogen-hq/mitogen/blob/798032b979bf5cabf50d3665f113f67cb5b33152/mitogen/core.py#L682, it's been around since the initial commit https://github.com/mitogen-hq/mitogen/blob/6d403481d44cdffb85ee36cc9e01642bcbc447df/mitogen/core.py#L461 #Python #Mitogen