[Python-ideas] Detecting circular imports ?

Fri Nov 19 05:32:24 CET 2010

Tarek Ziadé writes:
 > Yes that's the case I was thinking of. After years of Python I can
 > still get trapped on those. But maybe that's just me :)
So you're suggesting (pseudo-code, not Python!)
 message = usual_message
 if object is instance of ModuleType:
 message += "\nreferenced object is a module; are your imports OK?"
 raise AttributeError(message)
or something like that?