Ben Finney wrote: > Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I've got a directory where I keep all sorts of little snippets of >>python code for testing. When I start up python in that directory, >>I get the error I reported. It turns out, I've got a file called >>"string.py" in it [...] >> >>something in the help system must be doing an "import string". > > All hail the coming of PEP 328: > > <URL:http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0328.html>
Which, unless I misunderstand, would do nothing to change the behaviour of the OP's situation unless the mistakingly named "string.py" module was actually inside a package. If it was just in the current directory at the time, I don't think the PEP328 would have affected the situation. -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
