In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>So, under PEP 328 rules, the original poster's current-directory
>module could only be imported (a) if the current directory was in
>sys.path, or (b) if the code specified a relative import. The
>accidental shadowing of the s
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Once PEP 328 is fully implemented, all bare 'import foo' statements
> specify absolute imports (i.e. from sys.path only). To perform a
> relative import (e.g. from current directory) will require different
> syntax.
It seems like this will break lots of exis
Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ben Finney wrote:
> > Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>[current-directory module shadowing a system module]
> >
> > All hail the coming of PEP 328:
> > http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0328.html>
>
> Which, unless I misunderstand, would do nothi
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 [...]
>>
>>so
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 sys
Roy Smith wrote:
> No, that works fine. But, now I can't even reproduce the error I reported
> earlier (when I try, I get the help message as expected). And, yes, that
> was with a brand new interpreter session. Strange.
Perhaps you were running Python from a directory with a file called
strin
Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No, that works fine. But, now I can't even reproduce the error I reported
> earlier (when I try, I get the help message as expected). And, yes, that
> was with a brand new interpreter session. Strange.
I got it now! Oh, this is funny.
I've got a directo
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Delaney, Timothy (Tim)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Roy Smith wrote:
>
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "", line 1, in ?
> > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site.py", line 307, in call
> > import pydoc
> > File "/usr/local/lib/python2
Roy Smith wrote:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "", line 1, in ?
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site.py", line 307, in __call__
> import pydoc
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/pydoc.py", line 49, in ?
> from string import expandtabs, find, join, lower, split, strip,
>
