My python interpreter became mad !

[Benjamin Watine]

John Machin a écrit :
> On Mar 25, 10:05 pm, Benjamin Watine <wat... at cines.fr> wrote:
>> Yes, my python interpreter seems to became mad ; or may be it's me ! :)
>>
>> I'm trying to use re module to match text with regular expression. In a
>> first time, all works right. But since yesterday, I have a very strange
>> behaviour :
>>
>> $ python2.4
>> Python 2.4.4 (#2, Apr  5 2007, 20:11:18)
>> [GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)] on linux2
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>  >>> import re
>> X-Spam-Flag: YES
>> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7-deb (2006-10-05) on w3hosting.org
>> X-Spam-Level: **********************
>> X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=22.2 required=5.0 tests=MISSING_HB_SEP,
>>          MISSING_HEADERS,MISSING_SUBJECT,RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100,
>>
>> RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E8_51_100,RAZOR2_CHECK,TO_CC_NONE,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY,
>>
>> URIBL_AB_SURBL,URIBL_JP_SURBL,URIBL_OB_SURBL,URIBL_SBL,URIBL_SC_SURBL,
>>          URIBL_WS_SURBL autolearn=failed version=3.1.7-deb
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>>    File "/etc/postfix/re.py", line 19, in ?
>>      m = re.match('(Spam)', mail)
>> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'match'
>>  >>>
>>
>> What's the hell ?? I'm just importing the re module.
> 
> No you're not importing *the* re module. You're importing *an* re
> module, the first one that is found. In this case: your own re.py.
> Rename it.
> 

Oh... yes, that's it ; I have a file named re.py !
Ouch, sorry for this stupid question, and thank you for this evident 
answer. I didn't knew that it was possible to import a module this way...

Thank you for the fast answer !

Ben