Messing up with classes and their namespace

[Jean-Michel Pichavant]

Scott David Daniels wrote:
> Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
>> Hello world,
>>
>> I had recently a very nasty bug in my python application. The context 
>> is quite complex, but in the end the problem can be resume as follow:
>>
>> 2 files in the same directory :
>>
>> lib.py:
>>  >import foo
>>  >foo.Foo.BOOM='lib'
>>
>> foo.py:
>>  >class Foo:
>>  >    BOOM = 'Foooo'
>>  >
>>  >if __name__=='__main__':
>>  >    import lib # I'm expecting BOOM to be set to 'lib'
>>  >    print Foo.BOOM
>>
>> I was expecting 'lib' as output, but I got 'Fooo'. I don't really 
>> understand what python mechanism I'm messing with but I have the 
>> feeling I've misunderstood a very basic concept about class, 
>> namespace or whatever import notion.
>>
>
>> I guess there is 2 different objects for the same class Foo. How I do 
>> I make both Foo objects the same object ?
>
> OK, here is one solution (from which you may infer the problem):
>
> lib.py:
>     import __main__
>     __main__.Foo.BOOM = 'lib'
>
> foo.py:
>     class Foo:
>         BOOM = 'Foooo'
>
>     if __name__ == '__main__':
>         import lib # I'm expecting BOOM to be set to 'lib'
>         print(Foo.BOOM)
>
> Here is another solution:
>
> lib.py:
>     import foo
>     foo.Foo.BOOM = 'lib'
>
> foo.py:
>     class Foo:
>         BOOM = 'Foooo'
>
>     if __name__ == '__main__':
>         import sys
>         sys.modules['foo'] = sys.modules['__main__']
>         import lib # I'm expecting BOOM to be set to 'lib'
>         print(Foo.BOOM)
>
> Here is a demo of what is actually going wrong:
>
> foo.py:
>     class Foo:
>         inside = __name__
>
>     import foo
>
>     if __name__ == '__main__':
>         print(Foo is foo.Foo)
>         print(Foo.inside, foo.Foo.inside)
>
> And here is a fix
> foo.py:
>     if __name__ == '__main__':
>         import sys
>         sys.modules['foo'] = sys.modules['__main__']
>
>     class Foo:
>         inside = __name__
>
>     import foo
>
>     if __name__ == '__main__':
>         print(Foo is foo.Foo)
>         print(Foo.inside, foo.Foo.inside)
>
>
> --Scott David Daniels
> Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org

Thanks for the explanation. I'll have to give it a second thought, I'm 
still missing something but I'll figure it out.

Jean-Michel