[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-493628 ] import not pythonic in 2.1.1

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Bugs item #493628, was opened at 2001-12-15 03:37
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Category: Python Interpreter Core
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Chris Withers (fresh)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: import not pythonic in 2.1.1

Initial Comment:
Take a package 'aPackage', which contains a sub-package 'aSubPackage' that in turn contains a 
module 'aModule' that defines a class 'aClass'.

If I do:

import aPackage.aSubPackage
print aPackage.aSubPackage.aModule

I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "x.py", line xx, in ?
    print aPackage.aSubPackage.aModule
AttributeError: 'aPackage.aSubPackage' module has no attribute 'aModule'

A yet, if I do:

import aPackage.aSubPackage.aModule
print aPackage.aSubPackage.aModule

I get:
<module 'aPackage.aSubPackage.aModule' from 'some_path'>

...as expected, which is very confusing and doesn't feel 'right' :-S




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