Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Using relative imports within smtplib wouldn't have made any difference in this case. Your dummy email package was the first one encountered on sys.path, so the "import email.smtplib" line (which does an "import email" internally as the first step in resolving the import, and then tries to find "smtplib" in email.__path__) picked it up.
Putting an internal package directory on sys.path (as your example does) is seriously bad ju-ju. It's one of the main reason why people are so strongly discouraged from directly executing files that are stored in package directories (along with another nasty side effect in getting two different copies of the same module using different names, it also has the same effect as what you did here - subpackages/modules can end up overriding standard library modules and packages because the script directory gets placed on sys.path). __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2410> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
