Bug#484305: PoC not working for bicyclerepair

[Nico Golde]

Hi James,
* James Vega <jamessan at jamessan.com> [2008-07-07 23:42]:
> 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.

Yes I agree, I would also be not really happy about this 
solution as all module writes would need to be aware of this 
problem.

> 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.

Do you think reassigning this to python would be 
appropriate?

Thanks for the PEP links, I wasn't aware of them.

Kind regards
Nico
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