Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert > Kern wrote: > >> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert >>> Kern wrote: >>> >>>> Not all of the modules in a package are imported by importing the >>>> top-level package. >>> You can't import packages, only modules. >>> >>>> os.path is a particularly weird case because it is just an alias to the >>>> platform-specific path-handling module; os is not a package. >>> os is a module, os.path is a variable within that module. That's all >>> there is to it. >> Yes, but os.path is also module. That's why I said it was a weird case. > > You can't have modules within modules. os.path isn't an exception--see > below. > >> In [1]: import os >> >> In [2]: type(os.path) >> Out[2]: <type 'module'> > > On my Gentoo system: > > >>> import os > >>> os.path > <module 'posixpath' from '/usr/lib64/python2.5/posixpath.pyc'> > > It's just a variable that happens to point to the posixpath module.
I believe that is precisely what I was saying. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
