[Python-Dev] Package ambiguities

[Jeremy Hylton]

>In fact, if you change the first line to "from A.parent import *"
>(not that i am advocating this!) -- it works.  In short:
>
>    from parent import *    ...  Parent             doesn't work
>    import parent           ...  parent.Parent      doesn't work
>    
>    from A.parent import *  ...  Parent             works
>    import A.parent         ...  A.parent.Parent    works

One other possibility that ought to work (?)

    from A import parent

Jeremy