[Python-Dev] nested packages and import order
Joerg Sonnenberger
joerg at britannica.bec.de
Mon Oct 6 08:48:10 EDT 2003
Hi all,
I have a package a.b with the following content:
a/b/__init__.py:
import a.b
dir(a.b)
Running this generates a AttributeError for b, obviously the
import didn't add b to the module "a". Even though it can be
argued that importing a package from within is bad style, this
a clearly a bug since its at least surprising.
Shouldn't the import create the namespace entry in a after it
created the module entry in sys.modules?
Joerg
P.S.: Please CC me, I'm not subscriped
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