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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:58:28 -0800
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OKB (not okblacke) wrote:
>     	Anyway, testing this just reinforced my distaste for circular 
> imports.  Just trying to think about how it ought to work with a 
> importing c but then c and d importing each other makes my brain hurt.  
> Refactoring the files so that common code is in a separate library 
> imported by both is easier to understand, and has the nice side bonus 
> that it works.
> 

+1 QOTW