[ase-users] namespace collision in io module with Python 2.7

[Ask Hjorth Larsen]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, Nichols A. Romero wrote:

> This is for the gpaw_custom_hdf5 branch. Yes, the test directory has an io directory
> which trunk does not have.
>
> Nichols A. Romero, Ph.D.
> Argonne Leadership Computing Facility
> Argonne National Laboratory
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That makes the statement 'import io' a relative import which causes the 
standard library to grab the wrong io module or file.  A bad design 
decision on Python's part which I believe is fixed in Python3.  For now 
the solution is not to name modules and directories called io.py or io/ if 
one expects to run a Python interpreter in that directory.

Regards
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