Module Name Conflicts

[Peter Hansen]

torched_smurf at yahoo.com wrote:
> Robert Kern wrote:
>>That doesn't work. The first module is recorded as 'cmd' in sys.modules
>>and gets reused on the second import.
> 
> Exactly. And clearing sys.modules doesn't fix the problem. Once it's
> imported something from the first cmd package, it can no longer find
> anything in another cmd package; it will always look for it in that
> first package.

That part isn't correct.  Removing the entry from sys.modules should 
(and has, for me, in the past) worked fine to let a second import reload 
a module, or find a new module after sys.path has been tweaked.  Try it 
again.

-Peter