Nested module import clutters package namespace?

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:00:08 -0200, Dr. Rüdiger Kupper  
<ruediger.kupper at honda-ri.de> escribió:

> I'd be grateful for help with a problem of package and module
> namespaces. The behaviour I observe is unexpected (to me), and I
> couldn't find the answer in the docs, the tutorial, or the mailing
> list archive. So here we go:
>
> I have a package named 'pack'. Apart from the '__init__.py' file the
> directory contains two modules 'x.py' and 'y.py':
>
> pack/
>       __init__.py
>       x.py
>       y.py
>
> ==== __init__.py ====
> print "pack: Here is pack."
> print "pack: I now assign y='hello'."
> y="hello"
> print "pack: My y is now:", repr(y)
> print "pack: I now 'import x' which in turn does 'import y as q'."
> import x
> print "pack: My y is now:", repr(y)
> print "pack: Why?"
> =====================
>
> ==== x.py ===========
> print '  x: Here is x.'
> print "  x: I now 'import y as q'."
> import y as q
> =====================
>
> ==== y.py ===========
> print '    y: Here is y.'
> =====================

Looks like a bug to me - or perhaps someone who actually understands how  
import works could explain it?

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-- 
Gabriel Genellina