Thanks I figured I would have to do that, but it's too complicated in
this case. I'll just merge with the units module.

On Jul 21, 5:52 pm, David Roe <r...@math.harvard.edu> wrote:
> One solution to circular imports is to do one of the imports inside a
> function, rather than at the top level.
> David
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> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 17:36, Eviatar <eviatarb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I can't see how to solve this.
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> > I import units, which import sage_eval, which imports symbolic, which
> > imports physical_constants; thus the circular import. How can this be
> > solved? The only way I can see is to merge the units and
> > physical_constants files, but they don't exactly go together.
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> > On Jul 21, 2:17 am, Eviatar <eviatarb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Oh, thanks, that helps. I guess I'll have to restructure the code.
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> > > On Jul 21, 2:06 am, Burcin Erocal <bur...@erocal.org> wrote:
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> > > > Hi,
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> > > > On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:42:38 -0700 (PDT)
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> > > > Eviatar <eviatarb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > I am working on a physical constants module, but for whatever reason
> > I
> > > > > can't get it to correctly import the units module.
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> > > > > I import the units class using "from units import units", but I get:
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> > > > > <snip>
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> > > > > /home/eviatar/sage-4.7-linux-64bit-ubuntu_10.04.1_lts-x86_64-Linux/
> > > > > local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sage/symbolic/all.py in <module>()
> > > > >      12 from units import units
> > > > >      13
> > > > > ---> 14 import physical_constants
> > > > >      15
> > > > >      16
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> > > > > <snip backtrace>
>
> > > > > Is it a problem that physical_constants is imported in all.py along
> > > > > with the units module? Because when I run the file using %run, there
> > > > > is no error. I don't see what other way there is to do it though.
>
> > > > You introduce a circular import when you add the import statement for
> > > > physical constants to sage/symbolic/all.py.
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> > > > The first part of the traceback looks exactly like the one from #11116.
> > > > I was just trying to clean up some of those dependencies. The patch
> > > > attached to that ticket doesn't solve the problem there, but it might
> > > > help you.
>
> > > >http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/attachment/ticket/11116/trac_11116.
> > ..
>
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Burcin
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