On Oct 25, 5:07 pm, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: > >> t...@rubbish:~/tmp$ rm test.py test.pyc > >> t...@rubbish:~/tmp$ python2.5 > >> >>> import test > >> >>> dir(test) > >> ['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', '__path__'] > >> >>> test.__file__ > >> '/usr/lib/python2.5/test/__init__.pyc' > > >> because there's apparently a module named "test" in the standard > >> distribution that gets found instead. > > > You were right. When I renamed my test.py file into test77.py it > > worked perfectly well. Thank you. > > > Is there a way to know which test.py it was importing? > > well, as my simple code showed, you can check test.__file__ or > test.__path__ if you're curious. Python just searches through > your $PYTHONPATH which you can determine at runtime via sys.path > > -tkc
Thank you Tim, everything is clear now. Vicente Soler -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
