Detecting circular imports

Question

I\'m working with a project that contains about 30 unique modules. It wasn\'t designed too well, so it\'s common that I create circular imports when adding some new function

Answer 1

Not all circular imports are a problem, as you've found when an exception is not thrown.

When they are a problem, you'll get an exception the next time you try to run any of your tests. You can change the code when this happens.

I don't see any change required from this situation.

Example of when it's not a problem:

a.py

import b
a = 42
def f():
  return b.b

b.py

import a
b = 42
def f():
  return a.a