How to avoid mutual imports

[Tom Good]

huaiyu at gauss.almadan.ibm.com (Huaiyu Zhu) wrote in message news:<slrnabeai4.lrg.huaiyu at gauss.almadan.ibm.com>...
> I need advice on how to handle the following situation:
> 
> utils1.py:
>     a
> 	b
>     c
>     if __name__ == '__main__':
> 	   from interface import data_initialization  # circular
[snip]

>From your description I'm not sure what the problem is.  That import
is not  actually circular because when utils1.py is imported from
another module, ( _name__ == '__main__' )  will be false, so the
import statement after it will not be executed.

Am I missing something?


Tom