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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 08:50:12 +1000
Subject: Re: how to get os.py to use an ./ntpath.py instead of Lib/ntpath.py
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:13 AM, ruck <john.ruckstuhl@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure how I could have known that ntpath was already imported, since *I* didn't import it, but that was the key to my confusion.

One way to find out is to peek at the cache.

>>> import sys
>>> sys.modules

There are quite a few of them in the 3.2 interactive that I just tried this in.

ChrisA