R. David Murray added the comment: The same example can be constructed for python3 by modifying the imports.
I think what is happening here is that if a has not yet been imported, then when 'from .a import test' is done, the import machinery loads a and then defines 'a' in the local namespace, overriding the previous 'import package.b as a'. On the other hand, if a has already been imported, the import machinery finds 'a' in sys.modules and skips the import-and-set-name-in-local-namespace step. IMO the bug is that 'a' gets set at all when 'from a import test' is done, but the fact that it does so has a long history. ---------- nosy: +r.david.murray _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27543> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
