[Python-Dev] import question

[Michel Sanner]

Hi, I didn't get any response on help-python.org so I figured I try these lists


if I have the follwoing packages hierarchy

A/
	__init__.py
        B/
		__init__.py
		C.py


I can use:

>>> from A.B import C

but if I use:

>>> import A
>>> print A
<module 'A' from 'A/__init__.pyc'>
>>> from A import B
print B
<module 'A.B' from 'A/B/__init__.py'>
>>> from B import C
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: No module named B

in order to get this to work I have to

>>> import sys
>>> sys.modules['B'] = B

Is that expected ?
In the documentation I read:

"from" module "import" identifier

so I expected "from B import C" to be legal since B is a module

I tried this with Python 1.5.2 and 2.0 on an sgi under IRIX6.5

Thanks for any help

-Michel

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