[Tutor] problem importing class

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Thu Oct 26 19:45:36 CEST 2006


Danny Yoo wrote:
> Hi Shawn,
> 
> It looks like people have identified the problem, that your site.py module 
> isn't being found because it conflicts with something from Python's 
> Standard Library.
> 
> This isn't the first time this kind of problem has hit people.  This 
> problem is well known and is the subject of a Python Enhancement Proposal 
> (PEP 328).  If you're using Python 2.5, you can use a new feature called 
> 'absolute_import' to avoid the import problem.  See:
> 
>      http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/pep-328.html
> 
> for more details.

Hmm, I don't see how that would help since AFAICT shawn's site.py is not 
in a package. Or maybe I don't understand what you are suggesting?

Kent



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