Lament: Import is not very smart.

[Steve]

Sorry, I spoke without thinking:

but does
>>> import bar as mybar
>>> import foo.bar

solve the problem ??

Regards
Steve

> On 13 Jul 2004 15:25:50 -0700, Lonnie Princehouse
> 
> 
> <fnord at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> > I don't know if this is a bug or a feature, but it sure is annoying.
> > I apologize if it's already been discussed to death elsewhere (I
> > couldn't find anything).
> >
> > Suppose that you've a package named "foo" which contains module "bar".
> >  Because you're careless, you've also put foo/ into your path...
> >
> > Here's the problem:
> >
> > >> import foo.bar
> > >> import bar
> > >> foo.bar == bar
> > False
> >
> > The second import doesn't recognize that "bar" is already loaded as
> > foo.bar, and loads the module again.  I know it's easy to avoid this
> > by being consistent, but wouldn't be more intuitive if import checked
> > a hash of loaded module filenames before importing something anew?
> > E.g.
> >
> > >> import foo.bar
> > >> import bar
> > >> foo.bar == bar
> > True
> >
> > It's probably too late to change, but it's food for thought.
> >
> > (addendum: I ran into this when isinstance seemingly malfunctioned
> > while I was patching together lots of modules into a cohesive package;
> > turns out there were some instances that had been created from
> > package.module.class and others that were instances of module.class..
> > it took a while to figure out just what the problem was)
> > --
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> >
>