Jeremy Sanders wrote: >> if you got some other result, you didn't just import the same thing >> twice... > > I think you may be incorrect, or I have misinterpreted you.
you've misinterpreted what Python means by "a module". > Try this: > import foo.bar here you import the module named "foo.bar" > print foo.bar.myvar > foo.bar.myvar = 42 > print foo.bar.myvar > > sys.path.insert(0, 'foo') > import bar here you import the module named "bar". thanks to your path munging, that happens to point to the same file, but Python's import system doesn't give a damn about that. it identifies modules by their *names*, not their file system location. > When I would have expected 10, 42, 42. The bar module gets imported twice, > once as foo.bar and secondly as bar. The value of 42 in myvar does not get > retained, as there are two copies of the module imported. no, the "bar.py" *file* gets loaded twice, first as the "foo.bar" module, and then as the "bar" module. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
