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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/encodings/__init__.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/encodings/__init__.py b/Lib/encodings/__init__.py index 190b3c4950..7db44cbc4e 100644 --- a/Lib/encodings/__init__.py +++ b/Lib/encodings/__init__.py @@ -93,10 +93,10 @@ def search_function(encoding): if not modname or '.' in modname: continue try: - # Import equivalent to `` from .modname import *``. - # '*' is used so that __import__ returns the desired module and not - # 'encodings' itself. - mod = __import__(modname, globals(), locals(), ['*'], 1) + # Import is absolute to prevent the possibly malicious import of a + # module with side-effects that is not in the 'encodings' package. + mod = __import__('encodings.' + modname, fromlist=_import_tail, + level=0) except ImportError: pass else: |