[Twisted-web] twistd and web2 weirdness

Phil Christensen phil at bubblehouse.org
Tue Jul 24 13:12:06 EDT 2007


On Jul 24, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Phil Christensen wrote:

> On Jul 24, 2007, at 12:18 PM, L. Daniel Burr wrote:
>> Bzzzt!  Owie!  Don't do that.  The topmost package in the twisted
>> codebase is named "twisted".  You've shadowed that package with a
>> module of your own.
>>
>> Try renaming your file to something else, and I'll bet things
>> start working for you.
>
> Thanks for the fast reply, but unfortunately that's not the  
> problem. 'twisted.py' was just the example minimum file i was using  
> to describe the problem, although I clearly should have used  
> something else.
>
> Also, I'm pretty sure twistd's -y param simply loads this as a file  
> (hence the ability to name it with a .tac file).

Ah, but you meant that if the current directory is in my path, this  
would clobber the twisted package. Sorry about that. Fortunately,  
it's neither named 'twisted' or in my path ;-).

-phil



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