Good catch. Fixed in trunk On Friday, 19 October 2012 16:54:54 UTC-5, Jim Karsten wrote: > > I upgraded to v 2.1.1 and now see problems with module name conflicts due > to the custom importer. Previously I used v2.0.9 without problems. > > I have a custom application module named utils.py. This appears to > conflict with the gluon.utils module. I was able to simulate using the > basic web2py zip file and then creating a simple module > applications/welcome/modules/utils.py. When I access the welcome default > page, I get this error: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/root/tmp/web2py/web2py/gluon/restricted.py", line 209, > in restricted exec ccode in environment > File "/root/tmp/web2py/web2py/applications/welcome/models/db.py", line 42, > in from gluon.tools import Auth, Crud, Service, PluginManager, prettydate > File "/root/tmp/web2py/web2py/gluon/custom_import.py", line 89, > in custom_importer return > NATIVE_IMPORTER(name,globals,locals,fromlist,level) > File "/root/tmp/web2py/web2py/gluon/tools.py", line 30, in from utils > import web2py_uuid > ImportError: cannot import name web2py_uuid > > I disabled the custom importer by issuing a return immediately in > gluon/custom_import.py def custom_import_install() and the problem goes > away. > > I can also correct this specific issue if I change this line in > gluon/tools.py > > -from utils import web2py_uuid > +from gluon.utils import web2py_uuid > > This last change works, but it isn't a complete solution. For example, in > another application I have a constants.py module. It is conflicting with a > constants module MySQLdb makes use of. Deep in the code of MySQLdb there is > a line: > > from constants import CLIENT, FIELD_TYPE > > That import fails as it tries to find those classes in my custom module. I > can always rename my custom module, but this becomes a cat and mouse game. > I can't know every module name already in use. > > Any suggestions for this? It's a bit of a show stopper for me. Perhaps an > option should be available to disable the custom importer.
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