Using python 2.7~ For testing and edification purposes:
I have a project which has a controllers package at the directory level just below the root. >From the top-level (root) of the project, I start my python interpreter. The packages is called 'controllers' and has a submodule named 'imp' I do the following: >>> a = __import__('imp') >>> dir(a) ['C_BUILTIN', 'C_EXTENSION', 'IMP_HOOK', 'NullImporter', 'PKG_DIRECTORY', ....] # object a is the builtin imp module Now I do >>> b = __import__('controllers.imp', fromlist=['controllers']) >>> dir(b) ['COLORS', 'CONTROLLER', 'DBNAME', 'DBPWD', 'DBUSERNAME', 'ID_COL', 'JOB', 'MYTABLE', 'RECID', 'TABLEFORMAT', ...] # object b is the imp module in the controllers package. # I've resolved a potential name collision ... Now, suppose a python upgrade provides a package called controllers or there's some great third-party package available called controllers. How do I access the 'global' controllers package? thanks -- Tim http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list