on Thu Jun 21 2007, Peter Otten <__peter__-AT-web.de> wrote:
> 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
IIRC I ran doctest on the file I cited, not the one you're pointing
at. Is there some new magic doctest feature I should know about?
>> 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.
# this will succeed if I do it here
# import foo.bar
class X:
def y():
import foo.bar # but this fails
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