[Zope3-dev] Importing

[Chris Withers]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
> > +1.  Suitably obscure and clear at the same time.
> 
> Do you think that the name abreviation is useful?

Hmmm... Guido and Jim in one thread vaguely to do with importing, I might as
well toss this in...

If you have a file structure like:

/something/__init__.py
/something/somemodule.py
/something/abit/__init__.py
/something/abit/somemodule2.py

...you'd import the package like:

import something

BUT, how would you import a method/class in somemodule.py _from_ somemodule2.py?

I found the zope notion of a global name 'Products' very useful for this, and I
could only do the same in a non-Zope environment doing the evillest of hacks,
along the lines of:

something_package = string.join(string.split(__name__,'.')[:-2],'.')
exec "import %s.abit" % something_package

Now, how should I be doing this? (and in Zope 3?)

cheers,

Chris