import problems.

[Antoon Pardon]

On 01/11/2012 03:45 PM, Antoon Pardon wrote:
> On 01/11/2012 02:57 PM, Peter Otten wrote:
>> Antoon Pardon wrote:
>>
>>> I have an import problem I can't figure out.
>>> I am using python 2.6.6 on a debian box
>>>
>>> In one directory (pylib) I have a file misc.py and
>>> the file testutil.py.
>>>       from misc import Rec
>>> ImportError: cannot import name Rec
>>>
>>> Why can I import Rec from misc in testutil when I call testutil.py
>>> directly but not when testutil was imported itself?
>> Without looking into the details, could it be that you have two misc.py
>> files one with and one without Rec
> Well that depends on what you mean with "have".  This is what
> turned up when I searched for "misc.py"
>
> $ find /usr/local/lib /usr/lib /local/home/apardon -name misc.py 
> -print 2> /dev/null
> /usr/lib/python2.6/compiler/misc.py
> /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/PyQt4/uic/Compiler/misc.py
> /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/numpy/oldnumeric/misc.py
> /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/docutils/transforms/misc.py
> /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/docutils/parsers/rst/directives/misc.py
> /local/home/apardon/src/projecten/pylib/misc.py
>
> That last one is my file, the rest doesn't seem to be in sys.path so 
> they shouldn't interfere
> as far as I understand. Changing the name of my file to miscutil.py 
> resolves the problem though.
>
> I'll see if I can figure out more.

It seems there is a directory /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/misc in which 
is an empty __init.py__ file.
As far as I understand this makes misc a package on sys.path causing the 
problem.