Stefan Krah <stefan-use...@bytereef.org> added the comment: It looks like distutils/command from the stdlib is searched first despite the fact that the first path entry is '/home/stefan/tmp'.
If distutils/command is replaced with a/b, the import works: $ pwd /home/stefan/tmp $ $ ls a/b/ __init__.py xyz.py $ ls distutils/command/ __init__.py xyz.py $ $ cat a/b/__init__.py import sys sys.path.insert(0, '/home/stefan/tmp') print(sys.path) distutils_all = ['xyz'] __import__('a.b',globals(),locals(),distutils_all) $ cat distutils/command/__init__.py import sys sys.path.insert(0, '/home/stefan/tmp') print(sys.path) distutils_all = ['xyz'] __import__('distutils.command',globals(),locals(),distutils_all) $ /home/stefan/usr/bin/python3.3 a/b/__init__.py ['/home/stefan/tmp', '/home/stefan/tmp/a/b', '/home/stefan/usr/lib/python33.zip', '/home/stefan/usr/lib/python3.3', '/home/stefan/usr/lib/python3.3/plat-linux', '/home/stefan/usr/lib/python3.3/lib-dynload', '/home/stefan/.local/lib/python3.3/site-packages', '/home/stefan/usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages'] ['/home/stefan/tmp', '/home/stefan/tmp', '/home/stefan/tmp/a/b', '/home/stefan/usr/lib/python33.zip', '/home/stefan/usr/lib/python3.3', '/home/stefan/usr/lib/python3.3/plat-linux', '/home/stefan/usr/lib/python3.3/lib-dynload', '/home/stefan/.local/lib/python3.3/site-packages', '/home/stefan/usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages'] $ /home/stefan/usr/bin/python3.3 distutils/command/__init__.py ['/home/stefan/tmp', '/home/stefan/tmp/distutils/command', '/home/stefan/usr/lib/python33.zip', '/home/stefan/usr/lib/python3.3', '/home/stefan/usr/lib/python3.3/plat-linux', '/home/stefan/usr/lib/python3.3/lib-dynload', '/home/stefan/.local/lib/python3.3/site-packages', '/home/stefan/usr/lib/python3.3/site-packages'] Traceback (most recent call last): File "distutils/command/__init__.py", line 7, in <module> __import__('distutils.command',globals(),locals(),distutils_all) ImportError: No module named 'distutils.command.xyz' ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15434> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com