problem with isinstance and relative/absolute import

[Gordon McMillan]

Sylvain Thenault wrote:

> does someone can explain to me the following test case, or should it be
> considered as a bug ?
> 
> [syt at tux syt]$ ls tests/
> __init__.py  module2.py  module.py

[snip]

> [syt at tux syt]$ cd tests

Bad move. This makes the modules in the tests 
directory accessable in 2 ways - as a direct
import (sys.path[0]), or as a package. The
way you do your imports, you end up getting
module twice, once as module, once as tests.module.

Just look at the repr's of a, b and A to see.

And stay out of package directories.

-- Gordon
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