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Huzaifa Tapal
huzaifa at hostway.com
Thu Apr 28 19:02:43 EDT 2005
For my fix, I patched this issue by passing the import_module function the path with "/" in the end. That way it distinguishes from /home/user/dir1 and /home/user/dir123 hozi Graham Dumpleton wrote: > See: > > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MODPYTHON-9 > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MODPYTHON-10 > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MODPYTHON-11 > > There are various known issues with using same name module in different > directories. > > The first one has been addressed for next version of mod_python. > > Graham > > On 29/04/2005, at 8:22 AM, Huzaifa Tapal wrote: > >> I think there is a bug in apache.import_module. I am using >> apache.import_module passing in the path where I want the module >> imported from. I am seeing a very odd result as to sometimes, the >> module that is loaded is not the right one. Instead it loads a >> module that is of the same name but in a different directory. Here >> is what is happening: >> >> I have two modules of same name in 2 different directories as follows; >> >> /home/user/dir1/moduleA >> /home/user/dir123/moduleB >> >> Lets say I restart apache and load up moduleA. At that point there >> is an entry in sys.modules for moduleA. Lets say then, I load up >> moduleB, now the original entry for moduleA is overwritten by this >> new entry. Now when I go back to load moduleA, I get back moduleB >> results. Here is why: >> >> In apache.import_module if I pass in the path to load moduleA from >> '/home/user/dir1' and the last module was in '/home/user/dir123' then >> the check in import_module to make sure both modules aren't the same >> fails since it does a "file.startswith()" check on the path. Since >> the path moduleA is in the path to moduleB, it loads the wrong module. >> >> I see that somebody else had complained about this problem in >> mod_python 1.3.1 but it still has not been patched. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Hozi >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mod_python mailing list >> Mod_python at modpython.org >> http://mailman.modpython.org/mailman/listinfo/mod_python > > >
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