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Re: A mistake which almost went me mad

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On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Tim Chase
<python.list@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> 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.

Relative imports only work inside packages. You can't use a relative
import to import one top-level module from another.

Besides, the relative import doesn't help to disambiguate in this
case. The absolute path of the stdlib email module is "email". The
absolute path of the module in your CWD is also "email". Why should a
relative import prefer one over the other? So I would think that even
if it worked, it would still just end up importing the first one it
finds on your sys.path.

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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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