import problems in packages

[Peter Otten]

Stéphane Ninin wrote:

> Also sprach Stéphane Ninin :

Sollte es denn möglich sein! Dieser alte Heilige hat in seinem Walde noch
Nichts davon gehört... that intra-package import takes precedence over
absolute import!

> Here is the basic structure of the code (I have reduced it first).

And nicely so. Not letting similar names for modules, packages and classes
abound might have been a good idea, too.

> I have an ImportError problem, which is probably correct,
> but I do not understand it. And how to fix it...

> ROOT:
> /main.py
> /Handlers/__init__.py (empty)
> /Handlers/Handlers.py
> /Handlers/HandlerFactory.py
> /Handlers/Default/__init__.py (empty)
> /Handlers/Default/Handlers.py
> /Handlers/Default/HandlerFactory.py

> ROOT/main.py contains:
> from Handlers.HandlerFactory import HandlerFactory

works and triggers

> ROOT/Handlers/HandlerFactory.py contains:
> import Handlers.Default.HandlerFactory

which tries to import

ROOT/Handlers/Handlers/Default/HandlerFactory.py, but unfortunately
ROOT/Handlers/Handlers[.py] is not a package and therefore doesn't contain
a Default package. Currently, when you have

amodule.py
apackage/amodule.py
apackage/anothermodule.py

and try to import amodule into anothermodule, there is no way to tell Python
that you mean amodule.py and not apackage/anmodule.py.

Peter