relative import fails

[rjmcguire]

On ubuntu 12.04 using python-reloader as the importer causes relative imports to fail. Example is from: Traceback (most recent call last): ... File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/reloader.py", line 135, in _import _baseimport(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level) File "/home/rmcguire/Documents/Programming/Projects/clearformat_smtplogger_web/pyweb/session.py", line 5, in import json File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/reloader.py", line 135, in _import _baseimport(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/init.py", line 109, in from .encoder import JSONEncoder ImportError: cannot import name JSONEncoder

changing "from .encoder import JSONEncoder" to "from json.encoder import JSONEncoder" fixes the problem.

Does python-reloader support relative imports?

[jparise]

I'm afraid I haven't been able to reproduce this error. Relative imports are working correctly for me. Can you provide a test case? Here's what I tried:

import reloader
reloader.enable()

import json

... which correctly imports the JSONEncoder class from the relative .encoder module.

Furthermore, it looks like the ImportError in your traceback is being thrown by the base import function (generally builtins.__import__). Could there be another import hook that's in play here?

[rjmcguire]

Thanks for taking a look. I don't have anything else messing with the import system as far as I know. I'll see if I can reduce a test case.

Cheers,

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Jon Parise < reply@reply.github.com

wrote:

I'm afraid I haven't been able to reproduce this error. Relative imports are working correctly for me. Can you provide a test case? Here's what I tried:

import reloader
reloader.enable()

import json

... which correctly imports the JSONEncoder class from the relative .encoder module.

Furthermore, it looks like the ImportError in your traceback is being thrown by the base import function (generally builtins.__import__). Could there be another import hook that's in play here?

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[jtbates]

I get a very similar error when importing json. I also get errors importing nltk, numpy, and zmq. I've copied them all into a gist here: https://gist.github.com/2364371 I have no problem importing these packages if reloader is not used.

[jparise]

I'm embarrassed to say that, after much head scratching, I realized that this issue was fixed months ago (in git) but was never included in a PyPI release. This is fixed now, so if you grab version 0.3, everything should work as expected.

[rjmcguire]

Thanks, pip version now works for me.