[Tutor] about importing a module

[Kent Johnson]

shawn bright wrote:
> hello there,
> 
> if i have a module that is in the same directory as the file that 
> imports it,
> but that module has the same name as a module in my python path, which one
> gets imported ?

The local one. sys.path has the list of directories that are searched 
for imports, in the order they are searched. The local directory is first.

You can look at the __file__ attribute of a module to see where it comes 
from, e.g.
import mymodule
print mymodule.__file__

Kent

> 
> i ask because i want to do some work on the module, but dont want to 
> mess with my stable
> one in site-packages.
> so i want to import it from the local directory only.
> 
> thanks
> 
> shawn
> 
> 
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