[Python-Dev] unexpected import behaviour (original) (raw)

Oleg Broytman phd at phd.pp.ru
Thu Jul 29 14:53:26 CEST 2010

Hello.

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On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 07:32:28AM +0100, Daniel Waterworth wrote:

class Test: pass

def test1(): import test print Test == test.Test if name == 'main': test1() and then run it ($ python test.py), it'll print False.

The problem is that when you run the code as a script it is imported as module main; when you import it as 'test' you get the second copy of the module.

Oleg.

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