Commit ecd8157a authored by Fred Drake's avatar Fred Drake

Include a warning that scripts should not have the same name as standard

modules, or the module cannot be properly imported.  (Based on a suggestion
sent to python-docs.)

Update the displayed dir() of the sys and __builtin__ module with Python 2.2.
parent 6016dbec
......@@ -2237,7 +2237,13 @@ variable \code{sys.path} which is initialized from the directory
containing the input script (or the current directory),
\envvar{PYTHONPATH} and the installation-dependent default. This allows
Python programs that know what they're doing to modify or replace the
module search path. See the section on Standard Modules later.
module search path. Note that because the directory containing the
script being run is on the search path, it is important that the
script not have the same name as a standard module, or Python will
attempt to load the script as a module when that module is imported.
This will generally be an error. See section~\ref{standardModules},
``Standard Modules.'' for more information.
\subsection{``Compiled'' Python files}
......@@ -2363,9 +2369,15 @@ a module defines. It returns a sorted list of strings:
>>> dir(fibo)
['__name__', 'fib', 'fib2']
>>> dir(sys)
['__name__', 'argv', 'builtin_module_names', 'copyright', 'exit',
'maxint', 'modules', 'path', 'ps1', 'ps2', 'setprofile', 'settrace',
'stderr', 'stdin', 'stdout', 'version']
['__displayhook__', '__doc__', '__excepthook__', '__name__', '__stderr__',
'__stdin__', '__stdout__', '_getframe', 'argv', 'builtin_module_names',
'byteorder', 'copyright', 'displayhook', 'exc_info', 'exc_type',
'excepthook', 'exec_prefix', 'executable', 'exit', 'getdefaultencoding',
'getdlopenflags', 'getrecursionlimit', 'getrefcount', 'hexversion',
'maxint', 'maxunicode', 'modules', 'path', 'platform', 'prefix', 'ps1',
'ps2', 'setcheckinterval', 'setdlopenflags', 'setprofile',
'setrecursionlimit', 'settrace', 'stderr', 'stdin', 'stdout', 'version',
'version_info', 'warnoptions']
\end{verbatim}
Without arguments, \function{dir()} lists the names you have defined
......@@ -2388,15 +2400,27 @@ standard module \module{__builtin__}\refbimodindex{__builtin__}:
\begin{verbatim}
>>> import __builtin__
>>> dir(__builtin__)
['AccessError', 'AttributeError', 'ConflictError', 'EOFError', 'IOError',
'ImportError', 'IndexError', 'KeyError', 'KeyboardInterrupt',
'MemoryError', 'NameError', 'None', 'OverflowError', 'RuntimeError',
'SyntaxError', 'SystemError', 'SystemExit', 'TypeError', 'ValueError',
'ZeroDivisionError', '__name__', 'abs', 'apply', 'chr', 'cmp', 'coerce',
'compile', 'dir', 'divmod', 'eval', 'execfile', 'filter', 'float',
'getattr', 'hasattr', 'hash', 'hex', 'id', 'input', 'int', 'len', 'long',
'map', 'max', 'min', 'oct', 'open', 'ord', 'pow', 'range', 'raw_input',
'reduce', 'reload', 'repr', 'round', 'setattr', 'str', 'type', 'xrange']
['ArithmeticError', 'AssertionError', 'AttributeError',
'DeprecationWarning', 'EOFError', 'Ellipsis', 'EnvironmentError',
'Exception', 'FloatingPointError', 'IOError', 'ImportError',
'IndentationError', 'IndexError', 'KeyError', 'KeyboardInterrupt',
'LookupError', 'MemoryError', 'NameError', 'None', 'NotImplemented',
'NotImplementedError', 'OSError', 'OverflowError', 'OverflowWarning',
'ReferenceError', 'RuntimeError', 'RuntimeWarning', 'StandardError',
'StopIteration', 'SyntaxError', 'SyntaxWarning', 'SystemError',
'SystemExit', 'TabError', 'TypeError', 'UnboundLocalError',
'UnicodeError', 'UserWarning', 'ValueError', 'Warning',
'ZeroDivisionError', '_', '__debug__', '__doc__', '__import__',
'__name__', 'abs', 'apply', 'buffer', 'callable', 'chr', 'classmethod',
'cmp', 'coerce', 'compile', 'complex', 'copyright', 'credits', 'delattr',
'dict', 'dir', 'divmod', 'eval', 'execfile', 'exit', 'file', 'filter',
'float', 'getattr', 'globals', 'hasattr', 'hash', 'help', 'hex', 'id',
'input', 'int', 'intern', 'isinstance', 'issubclass', 'iter', 'len',
'license', 'list', 'locals', 'long', 'map', 'max', 'min', 'object',
'oct', 'open', 'ord', 'pow', 'property', 'quit', 'range', 'raw_input',
'reduce', 'reload', 'repr', 'round', 'setattr', 'slice', 'staticmethod',
'str', 'super', 'tuple', 'type', 'unichr', 'unicode', 'vars', 'xrange',
'zip']
\end{verbatim}
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