my Python lib is broken

[Bruno Rezende]

Hi,

I think I've broken my python installation (don't know how). All the
packages that are under 'lib' in python installation doesn't work the
way expected:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'dom'

but, if I import * from xml, it starts to work again:
<module 'xml.dom' from 'C:\Python25\Lib\xml\dom\__init__.pyc'>


Does someone know why is this happening? (I can reinstall my python
2.5, but would like to know how the python lib got broken).

regards,
Bruno

 

[Guilherme Polo]

Hi,

I think I've broken my python installation (don't know how). All the
packages that are under 'lib' in python installation doesn't work the
way expected:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'dom'

This is not broken. It is how packages works.
xml is a package, dom is a package inside xml. If you want to check
the attributes that you get importing xml you do dir(xml)

but, if I import * from xml, it starts to work again:

Doing that will cause the __init__.py inside package xml to check its
__all__ list and import them all, including dom

<module 'xml.dom' from 'C:\Python25\Lib\xml\dom\__init__.pyc'>


Does someone know why is this happening? (I can reinstall my python
2.5, but would like to know how the python lib got broken).

This is hapenning because you have installed Python, congratulations =)

 

[Bruno Rezende]

Thanks for the information! Indeed, I was geting an error when trying
to do:

from xml.dom import minidom

but it was because there is a xml.py file inside the same package, so
it happens a conflict...