[Python-Dev] Why does httplib import from test_support? (original) (raw)

skip at pobox.com skip at pobox.com
Mon Aug 18 13:08:40 CEST 2008

Is this new as of the last couple of days?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/skip/tmp/py/mmfold.py", line 182, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/Users/skip/tmp/py/mmfold.py", line 95, in main
    for line in urllib.urlopen(url+"?adminpw=%s" % passwd):
  File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/urllib.py", line 87, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url)
  File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/urllib.py", line 203, in open
    return getattr(self, name)(url)
  File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/urllib.py", line 285, in open_http
    import httplib
  File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 72, in <module>
    from test.test_support import catch_warning
ImportError: No module named test_support

The import statement seems to work from an interactive shell (I have a module named test in the same directory as the main prog, hence the problem), but even if it does work should we be importing stuff from the test package in non-test code?

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