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Reputation: 6762

how to instruct python to ignore imports

i have a private module, which for better or worse, i've called time. i have another module, which i've called graph that resides in the same directory it uses the redis-py module.

unfortunately, my time module doesn't do exactly what the standard time module does, and as a result i get the following error:

$ /opt/stuff/bin/python /opt/stuff/lib/utils/graph.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/stuff/lib/utils/graph.py", line 6, in <module>
    import redis
  File "/opt/stuff/lib/python2.6/site-packages/redis/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from redis.client import Redis, StrictRedis
  File "/opt/stuff/lib/python2.6/site-packages/redis/client.py", line 6, in <module>
    import time as mod_time
  File "/opt/stuff/lib/utils/time.py", line 5, in <module>
    import pytz
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pytz/__init__.py", line 32, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import resource_stream
  File "/opt/stuff/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 761, in <module>
    class Environment(object):
  File "/opt/stuff/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 764, in Environment
    def __init__(self, search_path=None, platform=get_supported_platform(), python=PY_MAJOR):
  File "/opt/stuff/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 140, in get_supported_platform
    plat = get_build_platform(); m = macosVersionString.match(plat)
  File "/opt/stuff/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 282, in get_build_platform
    from distutils.util import get_platform
  File "/opt/stuff/lib64/python2.6/distutils/__init__.py", line 25, in <module>
    from distutils import dist, sysconfig
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 21, in <module>
    from distutils.fancy_getopt import FancyGetopt, translate_longopt
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/distutils/fancy_getopt.py", line 32, in <module>
    longopt_xlate = string.maketrans('-', '_')
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'maketrans'

removing my time module rectifies the error. is there a way i can hack up my graph.py to basically ignore my time module and use the system one? i've tried using from __future__ import absolute_import but that didn't seem to make a difference.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1153

Answers (1)

Martijn Pieters
Martijn Pieters

Reputation: 1125058

It is not your graph module that is importing time; it is redis.client that does.

Your time is also a top-level module. Other Python code has no means to distinguish between your module and the standard library version.

You could alter the sys.path order and make sure standard library modules are found first, but really you should just rename your module. It is easy enough to give it a different name.

Upvotes: 1

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