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Author Robert.Kern
Recipients Robert.Kern
Date 2010-03-24.15:06:17
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Message-id <1269443180.02.0.978577516398.issue8221@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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When a module inside a package imports StringIO from cStringIO, it should change that to "from io import StringIO". However, if there is a module inside the package named io.py, 2to3 changes it to "from .io import StringIO".

[bug23]$ tree
.
`-- package
    |-- __init__.py
    |-- helper.py
    `-- io.py

1 directory, 3 files

[bug23]$ cat package/helper.py
from cStringIO import StringIO

[bug23]$ 2to3 package         
RefactoringTool: Skipping implicit fixer: buffer
RefactoringTool: Skipping implicit fixer: idioms
RefactoringTool: Skipping implicit fixer: set_literal
RefactoringTool: Skipping implicit fixer: ws_comma
--- package/helper.py (original)
+++ package/helper.py (refactored)
@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@
-from cStringIO import StringIO
+from .io import StringIO
RefactoringTool: Files that need to be modified:
RefactoringTool: package/helper.py
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Date User Action Args
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2010-03-24 15:06:20Robert.Kernsetmessageid: <1269443180.02.0.978577516398.issue8221@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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2010-03-24 15:06:17Robert.Kerncreate