Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> added the comment: Yes, while weird, that's expected behaviour.
Rather than being due to absolute vs relative imports, the difference arises from the fact that in "import pkg.module", the request is explicitly for a submodule, so the submodule import always happens, whereas if you write "from func import attr", the child module import is only attempted if "func.attr" fails to resolve after "func" is imported. $ echo "print(__name__)" > pkg/__init__.py $ echo "print(__name__)" > pkg/submodule.py $ python3 -c "import pkg; pkg.submodule = 1; import pkg.submodule; print(pkg.submodule)" pkg pkg.submodule <module 'pkg.submodule' from '/home/ncoghlan/devel/misc/_play/pkg/submodule.py'> $ python3 -c "import pkg; pkg.submodule = 1; from pkg import submodule; print(pkg.submodule)" pkg 1 ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue33547> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
