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[Josiah Carlson]

> So, how to avoid this? How can I refer back to a module higher in the "hierarchical" path.
> Up is so easy.. just say import foo.foo2.foo3. But up, what is the correct way of doing that?
> Something to put in __init__.py, like sys.path.apppend('..')? Looks ugly to me....

PEP 328, Relative imports should take care of your issue.

In the meantime...

#in main.py
import lib

#in foo1.py and foo2.py
import sys
lib = sys.modules['lib']


Now both of them will refer to the same 'lib' that main.py imported.

  - Josiah