[Python-Dev] New relative import issue (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Sep 19 12:16:59 CEST 2006

Josiah Carlson wrote:

As it stands, in order to "work around" this particular feature, one would need to write a 'loader' to handle importing and/or main() calling in subpackage1/module1.py .

Yup. At the moment, you can rely on PEP 328, or an PEP 338, but not both at the same time. This was previously discussed back in June/July with Anthony convincing me that the solution to the current poor interaction shouldn't be rushed [1].

It is, however, pretty trivial to write a runpy.run_module based launcher that will execute your module and use something other than "name == 'main'" to indicate that the module is the main module. By letting run_module set name normally, relative imports will "just work".

For example:

#mypkg/launch.py

Runs a script, using the global _launched to indicate whether or not

the module is the main module

if "_launched" not in globals(): _launched = False if (name == "main") or _launched: import runpy # Run the module specified as the next command line argument if len(sys.argv) < 2: print >> sys.stderr, "No module specified for execution" else: del sys.argv[0] # Make the requested module sys.argv[0] run_module(sys.argv[0], init_globals=dict(_launched=True), alter_sys=True)

Cheers, Nick.

[1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-July/067077.html

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