Bug#484305: PoC not working for bicyclerepair

[James Vega]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 10:15:44PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote:
> Can you think of a better solution than the following?
> --- /usr/share/vim/addons/plugin/bike.vim       2008-07-07 22:14:28.000000000 +0200
> +++ bike.vim.new        2008-07-07 22:14:26.000000000 +0200
> @@ -100,6 +100,7 @@
>  try:
>      if sys.version_info < (2, 2):
>          raise ImportError, 'Bicycle Repair Man needs Python 2.2 or newer'
> +    sys.path.remove('')
>      import bike
>      bikectx = bike.init()
>      bikectx.isLoaded        # make sure bike package is recent enough

I think this is being addressed from the wrong perspective.  This is a
Python problem.  Performing "import compiler", where compiler is a
module in the std-lib and performs its own import of another std-lib
module should not cause the module in the user's working directory to be
imported instead.

As evidenced by PEP 328[0] and PEP 366[1], this is an acknowledged
problem upstream and they're working to address it.  As for what that
means for the current bug, this is something that python users have to
deal with when they have a file whose name conflicts with one in the
std-lib.  This also means that the *only* time users will run into
issues like this are specifically when they have a filename in Vim's
working directory that conflicts with the name of a Python module.

[0] - http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0328/
[1] - http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0366/
-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan at debian.org>
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