[issue33547] Relative imports do not replace local variables

[Rolf Campbell]

Rolf Campbell <thats.unpossible at gmail.com> added the comment:

OK, OK, I think I finally understand what you mean here.  Let me try to repeat it just to make sure I really understand:

When requesting a member of a multi-file module (like "func" in my example), python only tries to load that member as a module from disk if there isn't something already created as part of __init__.py.

In my case, I'm trying to load "func.func" which I specifically created in line#1 of func/__init__.py, so Python sees no need to even try to load the func/func.py file.

If I comment-out the first line of func/__init__.py, then Python fails to find an item called "func.func" and so it tries to load one from disk which causes it to load "func/func.py".

My real problem here was that I shouldn't be creating entries in the "func" namespace that clash with on-disk sub-modules that I want loaded.

Thanks for your time and effort in explaining this.

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