Sam Silberstein added the comment: Hi there!
This is my first submission to the bug tracker, so I apologize if I'm missing some formatting here. I've found what's either vague documentation for the 'prefix' parameter of `pgkutil.walk_packages` or a bug. The method implies that it will only import submodules of the provided path, but if the prefix parameter is not filled, this method will import a module with the same name from outside the path -- so long as it exists in `sys.modules`. I'm unsure if this is due to the documentation not specifying that prefix should always be used when path is set, or if this is a bug (I can provide a fix if it's a bug). Steps to reproduce: Create a directory with a nested package with the same name as a package outside that directory, e.g.: ├── test1 │ ├── __init__.py │ └── should_not_be_included.py └── test2 ├── __init__.py └── test1 ├── __init__.py └── should_be_included.py `list(pkgutil.walk_packages(['test2']))` will contain 'should_not_be_included.py' instead of 'should_be_included.py'. Thank you! Sam Silberstein ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30337> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com