| Gregory Trubetskoy 
    grisha at modpython.org Fri May 26 12:03:26 EST 2000 
 On Fri, 26 May 2000, Greg Stein wrote:
> > The reasoning behind using exec to import was that __import__ doesn't
> > understand dots (packages),
> 
> Eh? Sure it does.
Looks like it does indeed. I wonder why I put this comment in
(now obsolete) httpdapy:
                # we could use __import__ but it can't handle packages
                exec "import " + module_name
May be it's something new with 1.5 or 1.5.2? I'm almost tempted to compile
an old Python version, but I think I'll pass.... :-)
Grisha
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