Is there a conflict of libraries here?

[Steve]

Ok, the light just went out.
I thought I was getting something, but no...

I will keep on reading, maybe it will hatch.

Maybe a different approach.
What is happening here?
(Should this be a new thread?)

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Sent: Saturday, November 7, 2020 2:33 PM
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Subject: Re: Is there a conflict of libraries here?

On 2020-11-07 13:26:30 -0500, Steve wrote:
> Ok, I think I see a light in the fog.
> 
> It looks as if I can identify a variable to contain a library.
> 
> Import datetime as dt1
> 
> I guess that I can have a second variable containing that same library:
> 
> Import datetime as dt2
> 
> Should I presume that not doing this is what caused the interference 
> in my code?

Not quite. The problem isn't that you imported the library twice, but that
you have a library (package/module) and a class of the same name.

When you try to import both with that name, only one of them will be
visible, since you can't have one name refer to two different things at the
same time.

>>> import datetime

The name datetime now refers to the module datetime:

>>> datetime
<module 'datetime' from '/usr/lib/python3.8/datetime.py'>
>>> id(datetime)
140407076788160


>>> from datetime import datetime

Now the name datetime now refers to the class datetime:

>>> datetime
<class 'datetime.datetime'>
>>> id(datetime)
9612160


You can import one or both of them with different names:

>>> import datetime as dt_module
>>> dt_module
<module 'datetime' from '/usr/lib/python3.8/datetime.py'>
>>> id(dt_module)
140407076788160

>>> from datetime import datetime as dt_class dt_class
<class 'datetime.datetime'>
>>> id(dt_class)
9612160

        hp

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