`import as` in Python 3

Asked Jan 25 '17 at 07:24

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How is this possible?

(Pdb) import brain.utils.mail
(Pdb) import brain.utils.mail as mail_utils
*** AttributeError: module 'brain.utils' has no attribute 'mail'

I always thought that import a.c.d as m is roughly equivalent to m = sys.modules['a.c.d']. Why AttributeError? Python 3.6

asked Jan 25 '17 at 07:24

warvariuc

What is `brain.utils.mail`: a package, a module, a function/variable? – DYZ Jan 25 '17 at 07:27
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it's a module in package `brain.utils`. It cannot be a variable I think, `import brain.utils.mail` would fail. – warvariuc Jan 25 '17 at 07:28
Does this help? http://stackoverflow.com/a/24968941/831878 – Ray Toal Jan 25 '17 at 07:30
@RayToal yes, this is the answer! Thanks – warvariuc Jan 25 '17 at 07:32
I've created an issue for this: http://bugs.python.org/issue30024 – warvariuc Apr 10 '17 at 19:25

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