David Abrahams wrote: > 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?
Explicitly passed, see http://genshi.edgewall.org/browser/trunk/genshi/filters/tests/transform.py > 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? Too vague, sorry. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
