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> * Imports are fiendishly complex, hidden below deceptively simple
>   syntax.
>
>   It's a reasonable expectation that one can import a module from a
>   source code file given its path on the filesystem, but this turns out
>   to be much more complicated than in many other languages.

Why is this so difficult?  Add a Graph class to the collections module
(networkx is quite good) and simply check for circular imports.  The
remaining difficulty I encounter is because the user hasn't defined
their PYTHONPATH variable.

-- 
MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington