Sporadic problems importing xml.dom.minidom

[Michael Robinson]

Sometimes when I run a program I get the message "Import:Error No Moduel
named dom.domino", sometimes it imports OK. It seems to depend on the
working directory when I star the program.

/home/mike/projects/xml_test/test.py:

Gives an erroor, the same file luanched from

/home/mike/projects/xml1/test.py:

runs without a problem

I am running the python 2.3 package, bundeld with Fedora Core 2.

 

[Michael Robinson]

Sometimes when I run a program I get the message "Import:Error No Moduel
named dom.domino", sometimes it imports OK. It seems to depend on the
working directory when I star the program.

/home/mike/projects/xml_test/test.py:

Gives an erroor, the same file luanched from

/home/mike/projects/xml1/test.py:

runs without a problem

I am running the python 2.3 package, bundeld with Fedora Core 2.

UPDATE:
It seems that some of the folders where the program worked, no longer work.

 

[Michael Robinson]

Sometimes when I run a program I get the message "Import:Error No Moduel
named dom.domino", sometimes it imports OK. It seems to depend on the
working directory when I star the program.

/home/mike/projects/xml_test/test.py:

Gives an erroor, the same file luanched from

/home/mike/projects/xml1/test.py:

runs without a problem

I am running the python 2.3 package, bundeld with Fedora Core 2.

I think i solved the problem. I had another file in those directorys
called xml.py, I guess that was interfeering

 

[Peter Hansen]

I think i solved the problem. I had another file in those directorys
called xml.py, I guess that was interfeering

That could do it, and possibly compounding your problem was
that even a leftover xml.pyc file (from your xml.py file when
it was imported another time) would still cause the trouble.
If you do have a problem with a name collision like that,
always be sure to nuke the .py *and* the .pyc file at the
same time.

-Peter