On 09/12/12 12:32, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Steven D'Aprano<st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
Assuming that two software packages Spam and Ham install into directories
Spam and Ham, how can merely having them installed side-by-side lead to a
conflict?
I can see how running or importing Spam and Ham together might lead to
problems. And I can see that if package Spam wants to install into
directory Ham, that would be bad. But who does that?
If two packages Spam and Ham both define a module Jam, then the one
that gets loaded will depend on the search path. That would be one
form of conflict.
import Spam.Jam
import Ham.Jam
What am I missing?
Why would a software package called "Spam" install a top-level module called
"Jam" rather than "Spam"? Isn't the whole point of Python packages to solve
this namespace problem?
--
Steven
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