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    Implement modules as singletons Python semantics. · d720ab52
    Paul Sokolovsky authored
    In Python, importing module several times returns same underlying module
    object. This also fixes import statement handling for builtin modules.
    
    There're still issues:
    1. CPython exposes set of loaded modules as sys.modules, we may want to
    do that either.
    2. Builtin modules are implicitly imported, which is not really correct.
    We should separate registering a (builtin) module and importing a module.
    CPython keeps builtin module names in sys.builtin_module_names .
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