How __future__ imports work under the hood

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00:00 Question
01:40 Accepted answer (Score 7)
03:23 Thank you

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4580...

Question links:
[What is __future__ in Python used for and how/when to use it, and how it works]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7075...

Accepted answer links:
[not treat ]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/v...
[future.c]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/v...
[future_parse()]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/v...
[refuses ]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/v...
[listed in ]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/v...
[__future__]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/__futu...
[compile()]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/functi...

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