importing same module more than once
- by wallacoloo
So after a few hours, I discovered the cause of a bug in my application. My app's source is structure like:
main/
__init__.py
folderA/
__init__.py
fileA.py
fileB.py
Really, there are about 50 more files. But that's not the point. In main/__init__.py, I have this code: from folderA.fileA import *
in folderA/__init__.py I have this code:
sys.path.append(pathToFolderA)
in folderA/fileB.py I have this code:
from fileA import *
The problem is that fileA gets imported twice. However, I only want to import it once.
The obvious way to fix this (to me atleast) is to change certain paths from path to folderA.path
But I feel like Python should not even have this error in the first place. What other workarounds are there that don't require each file to know it's absolute location?
