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Cannot import module in new plugin

Asked by Nicolas Chachereau

I'm trying to create a Kupfer plugin for the Hamster Time Tracking applet [1].

In order to avoid recreating a client class doing the D-Bus messaging, I wanted to import a module already existing in Hamster. However, I can't import this client class into my Kupfer plugin which fails because of this [2].

However, it works perfectly inside Python [3], which means Kupfer's custom import somehow restricts valid imports. Is this a feature (i.e. wanted behaviour) or a bug? If it isn't a bug, why can't I import this file, and what can I do instead? Do I really need to rewrite my own client class?

[1]: http://projecthamster.wordpress.com/
[2]: http://paste2.org/p/1512498
[3]: http://paste2.org/p/1512500

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Best Karol Będkowski (karol-bedkowski) said : 		#1

Your plugin also have name "hamster" so importing "client" from "hamster" you try to import client from plugin module.
Simplest solution - please rename your plugin to - in example - "hamster_client.py"

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Nicolas Chachereau (nicolas-chachereau) said : 		#2

Thanks Karol Będkowski, that solved my question.

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Nicolas Chachereau (nicolas-chachereau) said : 		#3

Thanks a lot, that should have been obvious. My python skills are obviously rusty!

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teranex (teranex) said : 		#4

Would it be possible to post the code somewhere online? I'm interested in this plugin, but the links to paste2.org are not valid anymore... Thx!