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Re: A mistake which almost went me mad

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On 2016-03-03 16:29, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
> On 3 March 2016 at 11:48, Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com>
> wrote:
> > On 2016-03-03 10:43, Nick Sarbicki wrote:
> >> The number of times I've had to correct a student for naming
> >> their script "turtle.py".
> >>
> >> And the number of times I've caught myself doing it...
> >
> > I'm surprised at the number of times I find myself creating an
> > "email.py" DESPITE KNOWING BETTER EVERY SINGLE TIME.
> 
> This mistake is too easy to make and should be fixed in the language
> somehow. There's no way that a novice user can know which module
> names are implicitly "reserved" by being used somewhere in the
> stdlib or the collection of 3rd party modules that they may happen
> to have installed.

I think that relative imports should ameliorate this, as I usually
hit it when I'm using smtplib which in turn imports "email" (and, in
2.x when it found my local email.py would crash and burn). If it used
a relative import that forced it to find the one in the stdlib, it
should(?) prevent it from finding my local version first.

-tkc

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A mistake which almost went me mad "ast" <nomail@invalid.com> - 2016-03-03 11:21 +0100
  Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-03 21:31 +1100
  Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Nick Sarbicki <nick.a.sarbicki@gmail.com> - 2016-03-03 10:43 +0000
  Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2016-03-03 10:48 +0000
    Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-03-04 19:19 +1300
  Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-03 23:57 +1100
  Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2016-03-03 05:48 -0600
  Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2016-03-03 16:29 +0000
    Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@highlandtechnology.invalid> - 2016-03-03 17:53 +0000
  Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2016-03-03 12:50 -0600
  Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 09:19 -0700
  Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-03-07 11:28 -0500
  Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-08 03:40 +1100
  Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2016-03-09 08:34 -0800
    Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-03-09 22:13 -0800
      Re: A mistake which almost went me mad Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 16:54 -0800

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