import python package when module is same name

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I have a module blah.time where I do some sanity checks and wrapper functions around normal time and date operations:

import time

def sleep(n):
    time.sleep(n)

When I call sleep, it just throws a maximum recursion error. I'm guessing the namespace is wrong, so I tried using import time as _time, but I still get the same error.

How do I reference the system time module from within my own module in order to prevent this namespace conflict?

Winston Ewert · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-04 19:51:23Z

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Add from __future__ import absolute_import as the first line in your file.

This will force all imports to be absolute rather then relative. So import time will import the standard module, to import a local module you'd use from . import foobar

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pelson · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-04 19:51:56Z

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I would read http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.5.html#pep-328-absolute-and-relative-imports and then use from __future__ import absolute_import.

HTH

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Ethan Furman · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-04 20:00:28Z

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What's happening is that your time module is shadowing the system time module. The easiest way around the problem is to rename your module to something besides time.

answered Oct 4, 2012 at 20:00

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