How to import a standard module in source file with same name?

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On 24 Aug 2003 11:17:13 -0700, rumours say that sdhyok at yahoo.com
(sdhyok) might have written:

>In addition, you can't import the standard datetime with the following
>script in vp/datetime.py.
>
>Daehyok
>
>
>> import datetime
>> import vp.datetime
>> vp.datetime.datetime = datetime

Like I said (including the sentence before the code),

>>Or you can do (in the importing module,
>>possibly your main program):
>>
>>import datetime
>>import vp.datetime
>>vp.datetime.datetime = datetime

Obviously I wasn't clear.  If module A imports vp.datetime, then the
code above should be entered in your A module.  For this to work,
vp.datetime should just define functions and/or classes (since there
would be no vp.datetime.datetime attribute while vp.datetime is
imported).

This all is theoretical since you agreed with Michael Peuser that having
a module with the same name as one of the standard library is not
"elegant".
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