I'm pretty comfortable with Python, but recently I'm constantly finding mysterious issues with import. For example, looking at
http://genshi.edgewall.org/browser/trunk/genshi/filters/transform.py the examples use the symbol 'HTML' but it's not defined locally, it's not explicitly imported, and there's no import *. Yet doctest will test this module and it passes with flying colors. It turns out HTML is defined in genshi.input. How do I know that? I grepped for it. How does it become available to this module? Another example: I was recently working on some code that did an import from inside a class method. That import was failing. I moved the import to the top of the file (at module scope) and it succeeded. I'm fairly sure that nobody was monkeying around with sys.path in that case. Can anyone think of a likely explanation? TIA, -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com The Astoria Seminar ==> http://www.astoriaseminar.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
