[Python-Dev] question/comment about documentation of relative imports (original) (raw)

Oleg Broytman phd at phd.pp.ru
Tue Oct 5 23:41:17 CEST 2010

On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 07:09:48AM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:

The remaining scenarios we have that can lead to duplication of a module happen regardless of the import style you use*.

Cheers, Nick. *For the curious - those scenarios relate to ending up with the same module present both as "main" and under its normal module name.

I remember falling in the trap of importing the same module twice by manipulating sys.path and changing cwd (current working directory); the module was imported from different paths - from the current directory (entry '.' in the sys.path) and by its full path.

Oleg.

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