On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Tarek Ziadé
If you use the "from module import something" form it will be an ImportError. If you do "import module" and then "module.something" you will see an AttributeError. These are the ones that can be confusing.
Yes that's the case I was thinking of. After years of Python I can still get trapped on those. But maybe that's just me :)
I certainly have problems with circular imports (especially involving __init__.py), and (as far as I've noticed) the error messages are seldom helpful unless you happen to be experienced in the problem and remember to look for circular imports. Simply giving a better error message for this case would solve the problem in my opinion, without the complexity of actually making anything work that doesn't work now. -- Ian Bicking | http://blog.ianbicking.org