On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 21:12, Thomas Robitaille
<thomas.robitai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm having a strange issue, and I've managed to reduce it to a simple
> problem. I created the following file structure:
>
> - a directory named scripts/
> - a script called scripts/inspect.py
> - a script called scripts/test.py
>
> inspect.py contains just 'pass' and test.py contains 'from
> matplotlib.pyplot import *'. When I run
>
> python scripts/test.py
>
> I get the traceback included below. Basically, it looks like python is
> trying to import my inspect.py script instead of one that comes with
> matplotlib. Is this just down to the design of python?

the current directory and the one containing the executed script are
by default imported first than standard and 3rd part modules.

> Is there
> anything I can do to avoid this problem in future apart from renaming
> inspect.py to another name?

rename it :) or maybe changing the os.path variable forcing to some values.

Cheers,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi

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