New submission from Antoine Pietri:
I just found a very strange bug today, and it took me like two hours to figure
out the problem.
We first create a package "package", which contains an __init__.py, which makes
an absolute import of package/foo.py (import package.foo), which makes an
absolute import of package/bar.py (import package.bar).
Everything works fine as expected, the modules are imported correctly in the
__init__.py and we can use them.
Now, if we move everything in a subpackage, the behavior is complete nonsense.
We then have package/subpackage/{foo,bar,__init__}.py and an empty
package/__init__.py.
We can import package.subpackage.foo and use it, but when we import
package.subpackage.bar, the "import" statement works as expected but we CAN'T
use the imported package:
>>> import package.subpackage.bar # works fine
>>> dir(package.subpackage.bar) # WAT
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'subpackage'
You can find a tarball attached to this bug report that contains the working
case and the failing case:
package1
├── bar.py
├── foo.py
└── __init__.py
package2
└── subpackage
├── bar.py
├── foo.py
└── __init__.py
$ python3
>>> import package1.foo
__init__: importing package1.foo
foo.py: importing package1.bar
foo.py: package1.bar.__name__: package1.bar
__init__: package1.foo.__name__: package1.foo
>>> import package2.subpackage.foo
__init__: importing package2.subpackage.foo
foo.py: importing package2.subpackage.bar
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "./package2/subpackage/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
import package2.subpackage.foo
File "./package2/subpackage/foo.py", line 3, in <module>
print(' foo.py: package2.subpackage.bar.__name__:',
package2.subpackage.bar.__name__)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'subpackage'
tl;dr: you can use only relative imports to refer to modules of a package
inside a module imported by the __init__.py of this package except if the
package is not a subpackage. Else, the package will be successfully imported
but trying to use it will lead to a weird AttributeError. (Wat.)
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components: Interpreter Core
files: lolpython.tar.xz
messages: 190688
nosy: seirl
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Strange behavior when importing internal modules in the __init__.py of a
submodule
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.3
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file30478/lolpython.tar.xz
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