Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert > Kern wrote: > >> Not all of the modules in a package are imported by importing the >> top-level package. > > You can't import packages, only modules. > >> os.path is a particularly weird case because it is just an alias to the >> platform-specific path-handling module; os is not a package. > > os is a module, os.path is a variable within that module. That's all there > is to it.
Yes, but os.path is also module. That's why I said it was a weird case. In [1]: import os In [2]: type(os.path) Out[2]: <type 'module'> -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
