=?UTF-8?B?T2t0YXkgxZ5hZmFr?= wrote: >> It appears that Python is reading "import thetest" as >> importing >> thetest.py (the same file that is currently being run). When it >> tries to run that file a second time, the relative import fails. >> > > No, there is no such thing happening. Read the error message more > carefully: the error happens when your code reaches the line "from > .theother import foo", and it fails because you are trying to > execute an "explicit" relative import statement (with leading dot > notation) as introduced by PEP 328. What you see is perfectly > expected behaviour as explained in detail in the PEP because the > python interpreter can only make sense of that statement if that > code is *imported* for use by code that resides *outside* the > package. That error message is what you see when you try to *run* a > package member module which uses explicit relative imports. Let me > try to explain a bit further:
Yes, such a thing was happening. (I described the fix in an answer to my own post.) You should read PEP 366 to understand what I was talking about, and what the __package__ variable does. -- --OKB (not okblacke) Brendan Barnwell "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path, and leave a trail." --author unknown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list