Bob Hossley added the comment: msg<249269>
Thank you David Murray. I should have asked myself, what is reasonable behavior? In the case of email.mime.nonmultipart an explicit import is clearly needed. I was misled by my experience with the os library. As a "package" it is very different from the email library. Importing os also makes available all of what appear at the script syntax level to be all its "sub-packages." 2015-08-28 09:57:26 /home/bob06 $ python Python 2.7.6 (default, Jun 22 2015, 17:58:13) [GCC 4.8.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import os >>> print(os.path.split) <function split at 0x7fac18704320> In the future I will try to remember that the effects of importing a "package" depend on how the "package" is packaged. So far as I'm concerned this issue is closed. I doubt that symptom "flakey Python behavior" is serious enough to interest Canonical. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24949> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
