[Tutor] Improper import

Lloyd Kvam pythontutor at venix.com
Sat Sep 6 12:29:37 EDT 2003


My mailman installation contains the files you describe, but without
the confusion.  Could ln have been used to link mailbox.py into the
Mailman directory??

Michael Montagne wrote:

> I'm having an issue with Mailman.  There is a file called Mailbox.py 
> in the Mailman directory that calls "import mailbox".  It is supposed
> to import /usr/lib/python2.2/mailbox.py.  Instead, it imports itself.
> It appears to not be respecting the case-sensitivity.  I can run "vim
> /var/lib/mailman/Mailman/mailbox.py" and edit the file that is called
> "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Mailbox.py"
>  
> What in the world can cause something like that?

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