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April 17, 2012 21:08
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wtfpython.py
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| from testing import mocks | |
| mocks.email # works | |
| # mocks.user doesn't work even though there's a testing/mocks/user.py files | |
| import testing.mocks.user # works fine | |
| mocks.user # now works: wtf??? | |
sys.modules is just a dict with keys like sys.modules['testing.mocks.email'] -- it's available to all modules everywhere in python. This is useful for many things like shared memory but is not useful for things like isolated dependency trees (the way npm install does that in node.js). As far as I can tell, you cannot implement isolated dependencies a la node in Python. setuptools tried to do this with crazy hacks but ultimately failed. It was too much magic.
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@oremj, @kumar303,
Okay interesting - so it seems like it's a side effect of having had imported it elsewhere in the code.