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On 3/24/2013 7:12 PM, Fabian von Romberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a package name collections and inside of my package I want to
> import the collections package from the standard library, but there
> is name conflicts.

Yes. I strongly advise against trying to do this.

> How do I import explicitly from the standard library?

Manipulate sys.path. If you don't know how, either read about sys.path 
(see index) or don't do it.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy