[Python-ideas] Disallow importing the same module under multiple names

[Greg Ewing]

Chris Billington wrote:
> I wonder how mercurial gets 
> around the fact that its own imports might be shadowed by whatever's in 
> the current working directory.

The cwd is only added to sys.path in the interactive interpreter,
not when you run "python something.py". So it's not usually a
problem for applications implemented in Python.

-- 
Greg