After importing a module, I can access some of its submodules directly
but others require an explicit import of the submodule.
As an example, see ldap.dn and ldap.modlist:
% python
Python 2.7.8 (default, Aug 4 2016, 09:29:33)
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-9)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import ldap
>>> ldap.__version__
'2.4.19'
>>> ldap.modlist
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'modlist'
>>> ldap.dn
<module 'ldap.dn' from
'/opt/rh/python27/root/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/ldap/dn.pyc'>
>>> import ldap.modlist
>>> ldap.modlist
<module 'ldap.modlist' from
'/opt/rh/python27/root/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/ldap/modlist.pyc'>
Why the difference?
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