loading packages in python 2.0

[Martin Philipp]

found it: the reason was a name clash: in the original distribution
there is a xml package as well

mpp

Martin Philipp wrote:
> 
> I have the follwing problem with packages:
> - I use python 2.0 under Win Me
> - I installed a set of packages/modules in d:\\localxml
> - all packages are below the root node xml, such dom, utils etc.
> - a statement such as
> "from xml.dom import core"
>   fails with: "ImportError: cannot import name core"
>   even though d:\\localxml and d:\\localxml\\xml are in sys.path
> - in each directory starting from localxml there is an appropriate
> __init__.py file
> - strangely enogh, a "from dom import core" works, however this leads to
> errors of the above kind for subsequent import statements in that module
> 
> What is going on/wrong? Any help is very much appreciated.
> 
> Thank you for your efforts,
> 
> Martin