Dan Sommers wrote: > 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.
That doesn't work. The first module is recorded as 'cmd' in sys.modules and gets reused on the second import. [~]$ mkdir foo1 [~]$ mkdir foo2 [~]$ touch foo1/blah.py [~]$ touch foo2/blah.py [~]$ python Python 2.4.1 (#2, Mar 31 2005, 00:05:10) [GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1666)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.path.insert(0,'foo1') >>> import blah as blah1 >>> sys.path.insert(0,'foo2') >>> import blah as blah2 >>> sys.modules['blah'] <module 'blah' from 'foo1/blah.py'> >>> blah2.__file__ 'foo1/blah.py' >>> -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
