On 09/12/12 12:32, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Steven D'Aprano<steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
Assuming that two software packages Spam and Ham install into directories Spam and Ham, how can merely having them installed side-by-side lead to a conflict?
I can see how running or importing Spam and Ham together might lead to problems. And I can see that if package Spam wants to install into directory Ham, that would be bad. But who does that?
If two packages Spam and Ham both define a module Jam, then the one that gets loaded will depend on the search path. That would be one form of conflict.
import Spam.Jam import Ham.Jam What am I missing? Why would a software package called "Spam" install a top-level module called "Jam" rather than "Spam"? Isn't the whole point of Python packages to solve this namespace problem? -- Steven