From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 17:38:22 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Reject empty module names -- otherwise __import__("") does something
X-Git-Tag: v1.5.1~42
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=111c20b992e523dd094d9b3c459aa21eb2778cea;p=python

Reject empty module names -- otherwise __import__("") does something
weird!
---

diff --git a/Python/import.c b/Python/import.c
index 6eb794f298..afbd4d8ba3 100644
--- a/Python/import.c
+++ b/Python/import.c
@@ -1515,6 +1515,11 @@ load_next(mod, altmod, p_name, buf, p_buflen)
 		*p_name = dot+1;
 		len = dot-name;
 	}
+	if (len == 0) {
+		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError,
+				"Empty module name");
+		return NULL;
+	}
 
 	p = buf + *p_buflen;
 	if (p != buf)