Brett Cannon added the comment: It's because you have a nested circular import. When you import package2.subpackage from within package2.subpackage you're in package2 importing package2 and also in package2.subpackage importing package2.subpackage.
You can solve your problem by doing either ``from package2.subpackage import foo`` for ``from . import foo`` as that lets package2.subpackage be imported entirely on its own before attempting package2.subpackage.foo and thus letting the circular loop unroll and have the right attributes set since the attributes of a module for a package are set after the import completes. Might be annoying, but tweaking this would probably break code if changed as it's very old semantics to set the attribute of a module on a package after other imports complete. This is also not a problem as long as you don't do this in an __init__ (e.g. importing package2.subpackage.bar from package2.subpackage.foo is not a problem). ---------- nosy: +brett.cannon resolution: -> wont fix status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18145> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com