[mod_python] Severe problems with importing still happening.

Sean -

I've skimmed over the two messages you referenced, and it wasn't very 
apparent what the problem is mainly due to the complexity of the 
attributes. I think if you want this resolved, you need to work on a clean 
and simple case explaining how to replicate the problem. Assume that we, 
the folks who develop mod_python, are not that smart actually, and we 
don't know what SimpleTAL is and have the attention span of a first grader 
:-)

Grisha

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Sean Reifschneider wrote:

> I just wanted to follow up to some previous messages and say that the
> problem still seems to be there.  In particular, I'm talking about the
> problems that I've mentioned in May of this year and June of last year:
>
>   http://www.modpython.org/pipermail/mod_python/2004-May/015678.html
>   http://www.modpython.org/pipermail/mod_python/2003-June/013807.html
>
> A few weeks ago I was finally able to get the new toolchain working
> (with python 2.3.4 and mod_python 3.1.3), and the problem still is
> happening there.
>
> Some of these problems can be worked around by changing the way things
> are imported, importing them earlier instead of later.  However, it
> seems that the more complicated the code is that you're dealing with,
> the more likely you are to run into this problem.
>
> I've just been contacted by another user who is also, apparently,
> running into this problem on mod_python 3.1.3 and Python 2.3.4.  As far
> as I know, they are not using dynamic imports the way I was.
>
> I have completely re-designed JOTWeb so that all the user code now gets
> imported right up front, instead of importing code as my users reference
> it.  This seems to have worked around that problem.  Unfortunately, it's
> crippled the code structuring that I had before, basically requiring
> that everything reside in one module that's imported right up front.
>
> Unfortunately, the only way I know of to reproduce this problem requires
> Zope 3's Page Templates and JOTWeb to be installed and configured.
>
> Obviously, it would be nice if this bug could get fixed.  I'd be happy
> to work with someone who has a good understanding of the import hooks in
> mod_python.  I, unfortunately, don't have the time right now to become
> an expert in the mod_python code to the point where I'm likely to be
> able to track this down on my own.
>
> Thanks,
> Sean
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> before it executed them.  -- Sean Reifschneider, 2002
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