newbie question: getting a module in a package

[Carey Evans]

"Mike Fletcher" <mcfletch at vrtelecom.com> writes:

> It's rather awkward looking, but it seems to work here... the operation
> seems a little arbitrary to me (why bother to check for non-empty list if
> you're not using the values for anything?)  It's documented, I just think
> it's weird :) .

It probably makes a little more sense when you consider how Python
uses it, or how you'd do it in your own __import__.  Doing something
like

>>> from spam.eggs import ham

will call __import__ with something like:

    tmp = __import__('spam.eggs', globals(), locals(), ['ham'])

and even if ham is not present in spam.eggs, spam.eggs will still be
imported and put in sys.modules['spam.eggs'].  It will fail just after 
that when it tries to do the equivalent of:

    locals()['ham'] = getattr(tmp, 'ham')


Umm, maybe it's still wierd.  Still, for good form I'd probably pass
the name of at least one of the things I was looking for in spam.eggs
to __import__.

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