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

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Fri Jul 30 19:32:10 CEST 2010

On 30/07/2010 17:59, Oleg Broytman wrote:

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.

It isn't a bug but it's a very common cause of bugs, even for relatively experienced Python programmers (this exchange being another case in point).

Michael

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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