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Subject: Re: new.py and having '.' in PYTHONPATH
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On Monday, February 23, 2015 at 1:01:07 PM UTC-8, Tobiah wrote:
> Was working along, and wasted some time on this.
>=20
> Wanted to try something on my script, so I copied
> it to 'new.py'.  It wouldn't run, and neither would
> the one I copied from!
>=20
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "a2z.py", line 6, in <module>
>      from suds.client import Client
>    File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/suds/__init__.py", line 154, in <modu=
le>
>     =20
>    File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/suds/client.py", line 30, in <module>
>    File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/suds/sudsobject.py", line 25, in <mod=
ule>
> ImportError: cannot import name classobj
>=20
>=20
> I finally figured out that the presence of new.py in
> my directory was breaking things.  '.' is in my
> PYTHONPATH, so maybe suds was looking for some
> other new.py.
>=20
> Anyway, it raises the question as to whether having '.' in the
> PYTHONPATH is at all a sane thing to do.
>=20
> Thanks,
>=20
> Tobiah

There shouldn't be a need to have '.' in your PYTHONPATH.  If your current =
working directory is /home/me, and you have a module in /home/me/myModule.p=
y, then opening up the interpreter and typing `import myModule` should work=
 fine without '.' in your PYTHONPATH.

Are you running Python 2.x?  There was a module named "new" in 2.x that was=
 removed in 3.  You might be dealing with a conflict when you call your own=
 module 'new.py'.