Module Conflicts

Benjamin musiccomposition at gmail.com
Wed Apr 9 22:36:42 EDT 2008


On Apr 9, 5:33 pm, Jose <jfgome... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a module named math.py in a package with some class
> definitions.  I am trying to import the standard python math module
> inside of math.py but It seems to be importing itself.  Is there any
> way around this problem without renaming my math.py file?

Not without some unpythonic magic. It's really not good style to name
a module the same as a stdlib one. It'll also confuse people reading
your code.



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