From: Thomas Heller <theller@ctypes.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 09:17:06 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: This change makes imputil more closely emulate the standard import
X-Git-Tag: v2.1b1~403
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bfae1964c8973a78f332d2d3f224eb78748981db;p=python

This change makes imputil more closely emulate the standard import
mechanism to support self-modifying modules.
---

diff --git a/Lib/imputil.py b/Lib/imputil.py
index 3185d7d94c..2f87d69be9 100644
--- a/Lib/imputil.py
+++ b/Lib/imputil.py
@@ -282,7 +282,8 @@ class Importer:
         if not is_module:
             exec code in module.__dict__
 
-        return module
+        # fetch from sys.modules instead of returning module directly.
+        return sys.modules[fqname]
 
     def _load_tail(self, m, parts):
         """Import the rest of the modules, down from the top-level module.