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

Oleg Broytman phd at phd.pp.ru
Fri Jul 30 18:59:45 CEST 2010


On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 07:26:26AM +0100, Daniel Waterworth wrote:

@Oleg: ... This is purely CPython bug-fixing/the discussion of implementation choices.

I am not sure it's a bug. By manipulating sys.path (or symlinks in the FS) one can import the same file as different modules as many times as [s]he wants. Should this be fixed for main? I doubt it. Instead of making main a special case follow the rule: don't import the same module under different paths/names. Make your script simply

from test import main main()

Oleg.

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