On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:58:55 -0400 > "P.J. Eby" <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: >> >> Anyway, to make a long story short, we came up with an alternative >> implementation plan that actually solves some other problems besides >> the one that PEP 382 sets out to solve, and whose implementation a >> bit is easier to explain. (In fact, for users coming from various >> other languages, it hardly needs any explanation at all.) > > I have a question. > > If I have (on sys.path) a module "x.py" containing, say: > > y = 5 > > and (also on sys.path), a directory "x" containing a "y.py" module. > > What is "from x import y" supposed to do? > > (currently, it would bind "y" to its value in x.py)
It would behave the same as it does today: the imported value of 'y' would be 5. Virtual packages only kick in if an import would otherwise fail. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
