[Python-Dev] Draft PEP: "Simplified Package Layout and Partitioning"

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:58:55 -0400
"P.J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> 
> Anyway, to make a long story short, we came up with an alternative 
> implementation plan that actually solves some other problems besides 
> the one that PEP 382 sets out to solve, and whose implementation a 
> bit is easier to explain.  (In fact, for users coming from various 
> other languages, it hardly needs any explanation at all.)

I have a question.

If I have (on sys.path) a module "x.py" containing, say:

    y = 5

and (also on sys.path), a directory "x" containing a "y.py" module.

What is "from x import y" supposed to do?

(currently, it would bind "y" to its value in x.py)

Regards

Antoine.