Lament: Import is not very smart.

[Lonnie Princehouse]

Aha!  Someone else has been boggled by this too.  It's an easy problem
to avoid in simple code, but much more difficult once one starts doing
esoteric things with __import__ and sys.path...


"John Roth" <newsgroups at jhrothjr.com> wrote in message news:<10fa9pdto6pstf4 at news.supernews.com>...
> "Greg Ewing" <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in message
> news:2ljm4dFch6u1U1 at uni-berlin.de...
> > Lonnie Princehouse wrote:
> > > Suppose that you've a package named "foo" which contains module "bar".
> > >  Because you're careless, you've also put foo/ into your path...
> >
> > The solution to that is not to be careless (i.e. don't
> > put overlapping entries into your path).
> 
> Sometimes it isn't carelessness. You wouldn't believe the
> amount of trouble that caused me with the FIT port.
> 
> John Roth