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Antoon Pardon wrote:

> I have an import problem I can't figure out.
> I am using python 2.6.6 on a debian box
> 
> In one directory (pylib) I have a file misc.py and
> the file testutil.py.

>      from misc import Rec
> ImportError: cannot import name Rec
> 
> Why can I import Rec from misc in testutil when I call testutil.py
> directly but not when testutil was imported itself?

Without looking into the details, could it be that you have two misc.py 
files one with and one without Rec?