In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Carl Banks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ben Finney wrote: > > "DataSmash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > * random.py: > > > > > > import random > > > > Now that you've tripped over this ambiguity of Python's current > > 'import' behaviour, you may be interested to know that the behaviour > > will change to solve this: > > > > <URL:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0328/> > > I don't believe this change will solve the problem at hand, at least > there's nothing in the PEP that says it will. "import random" is an > absolute import even in random.py is in the current directory, because > current directory is in sys.path. Unless there's a change sys.path > planned, the shadowing should still happen. Correct. See also http://python.org/sf/946373 for more explanations and also more of the same confusion. Just -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
