[Tutor] Module search path problem

[Bob Gailer]

Christer Enfors wrote:
> I have two files, in the same directory: main.py, and user.py I have the 
> following code in main.py:
>
>    ----main.py----
>    import user
>
>    [snip]
>
>    user_man = user.UserMan()
>    -----end-----
>
> This works without problems.
>
> But then I tried moving user.py to a subdirectory, and adding that 
> directory to Python's module search path, so this is what main.py looks 
> like now:
>
>    ----main.py---
>    import sys
>    sys.path.append("/correct/complete/path/to/subdir")
>
>    import user  # Generates no error message, so it's finding user.py
>
>    [snip]
>
>    user_man = user.UserMan()
>    -----end-----
>
> But now I get an error message for the last line shown above:
>
>    ----start----
>    Traceback (most recent call last):
>      File "./main.py", line 56, in ?
>        driver.boot()
>      File "./main.py", line 34, in boot
>        user_man = user.UserMan()
>    AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'UserMan'
>    -----end-----
>
> What's up with this?
>   
Kent gave the answer for this case. In general use the __file__ 
attribute of the module object to see what was actually imported. In 
your case:

print user.__file__

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