Today I installed the 'mechanoid' package from sourceforge, but the self-test failed. On looking into it, I noticed odd behaviour in the handling of single underscore module names. Importing into the current namespace with 'from' seems to work, but accessing members of the imported module only works if the imported name is qualified by the containing module name.
For example: >>> from mechanoid import _mechanoid_Common >>> from _mechanoid_Common import Common Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? ImportError: No module named _mechanoid_Common >>> from mechanoid._mechanoid_Common import Common **succeeds** >>> _mechanoid_Common <module 'mechanoid._mechanoid_Common' from 'mechanoid\_mechanoid_Common.pyc'> Is this a bug or a feature? The language reference section 2.3.2 'Reserved classes of identifiers' indicates that identifiers starting with a single underscore are not imported by "from module import *". However I can't find any indication that "from module import _name" should work this way. Thanks Tom -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
