<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jul 12, 2010, at 11:36 AM, Reid Kleckner wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Menlo; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">(Somwhat off-topic): Another pain point students had was accidentally<br>shadowing stdlib modules, like random. Renaming the file didn't solve<br>the problem either, because it left behind .pycs, which I had to help<br>them delete.<br></span></span></blockquote></div><br><div>I feel your pain. It seems like every third person who starts playing with Twisted starts off by making a file called 'twisted.py' and then getting really confused by the behavior. I would love it if this could be fixed, but I haven't yet thought of a solution that would be less confusing than the problem itself.</div></body></html>