Error importing __init__ declared variable from another package

[Jason Veldicott]

Accidentally hit post by mistake before msg completed.

Any comments appreciated.  It's a very simple scenario, but not sure what
the mistake is.

Thanks

Jason


On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Jason Veldicott
<jasonveldicott at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a simple configuration of modules as beneath, but an import error
> is reported:
>
> /engine
>    (__init__ is empty here)
>    engine.py
> /sim
>    __init__.py
>
>
> The module engine.py imports a variable instantiated in sim.__init__ as
> follows:
>
>    from sim import var_name
>    var_name.func()
>
> The following error messaged is received on the func() call above (Eclipse
> PyDev):
>
> "undefined variable from import: func"
>
> Any idea why this is causing an error?
>
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