On 18 Aug 2005 16:06:46 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a java program in a package called 'cmd'. This of course > conflicts with the builtin python package of the same name. The thing > is, I need to be able to import from both of these packages in the same > script. I can import either one first, but any future attempt to import > from cmd.* will look up the first cmd that was imported, so the second > package is essentially eclipsed. I've tried fiddling with sys.path and > sys.packageManager.searchPath, to no avail. To answer the obvious first > suggestion, no I can't rename the java package to 'Cmd' or anything > like that. Any ideas?
Assuming you can fiddle with sys.path at the right times, you can call an imported module anything you want: fix_sys_path_to_find_java_cmd_first() import cmd as java_cmd fix_sys_path_to_find_python_cmd_first() import cmd as python_cmd Obviously, then, 'cmd' does not reference either module; you'd have to use java_cmd and python_cmd as appropriate. HTH, Dan -- Dan Sommers <http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan/> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list