[Numpy-discussion] Crash on (un-orthodox) __import__

[Paul Ivanov]

Hi Andrea,

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Andrea Gavana <andrea.gavana at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>     I was fiddling here and there with some code doing dynamic import of
> stuff, and I noticed that this code:
> import os
> import sys
> init_name = r"C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\numpy\__init__.py"
> directory, module_name = os.path.split(init_name)
> main = os.path.splitext(module_name)[0]
> sys.path.insert(0, os.path.normpath(directory))
> # Crash here...
> mainmod = __import__(main)


in this case, your main is '__init__' and your directory is
'C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\numpy' which is probably not what you
intended. You should make directory 'C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages'
and main into 'numpy'

best,
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