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

[Chris Billington]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 10:58 AM, Chris Billington <
chrisjbillington at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think that's true:
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 10:51 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
> I don't think that's true:
>
> $ cd /tmp
> $ echo 'import bar' > foo.py
> $ echo 'print("this is bar")' > bar.py
> $ python foo.py
> this is bar
>
> (/tmp is not in the python path)
>
>
Actually I'm mistaken. That's the directory of the script being added to
the path, not the current working directory.


-Chris
>
>> --
>> Greg
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