[Python-Dev] ImportWarning flood (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Wed Jun 28 22:14:49 CEST 2006

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006, James Y Knight wrote:

I just found another reason to dislike the warnings: my homedir on one machine has a lot of random directories in it. One of them is named "readline". Every time I run python 2.5, it now helpfully notes: sys:1: ImportWarning: Not importing directory 'readline': missing init.py It used to be the case that it was very unlikely that running python in your homedir would cause issues. Even though the current directory is on the default pythonpath, you needed to have either a file ending in .py or a directory with an init.py with the same name as a python module to cause problems. And that is generally unlikely to happen. Now, however, you get warnings just by having any directory in your CWD with the same name as a python module. That's much more likely to happen; I can't be the only one who will have this issue.

Oooooo! Yuck! I am now +1 for reverting the warning.

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