Hey Ned,
Thank you for mentioning the old and related issue.
In order to prevent confusion, I want to point out that the primary
scenario that I meant is not that the file imports itself but another file
in the same directory with the name of a module that is also installed in
site-packages. Not sure if I made that clear in my original post?
On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 4:30 PM Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> wrote:
> On 11/2/21 6:03 AM, Florian Wetschoreck wrote:
>
> Hello everyone:
>
> The scenario/observation:
> Beginners sometimes create scripts with the name of a package e.g.
> pandas.py or seaborn.py in order to test something.
>
>
> There's a previous discussion about preventing importing a file into
> itself. It's a common beginner mistake: "I want to try out the random
> module, I will name my test program random.py". Then they get a baffling
> error: "AttributeError: module 'random' has no attribute 'shuffle'". If
> we make the actual error more apparent ("ImportError: module 'random'
> imported itself"), we might nip this error in the bud.
>
> Thread:
> https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/thread/XJIEQQ7FCTNVKB7SMRQS2IJSSANRDU26/#QOL54FGEDKYGX5J4UMBAUR74PGS3HEPD
>
> --Ned.
>
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