[PEAK] Strange behaviour

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 09:00 PM 7/19/2005 +0000, Tiago Cogumbreiro wrote:
>Hello list,
>
>While doing a very small example the strangest thing happened. I am
>registring my models in the [Component Factories] entry of the INI
>file, just as the bulletins example. The problem is, when I try to use
>the DM _the first_ an error about not being able to import the module
>appears. I am using this in a test case and as you can see the second
>time it's run the problem silently goes away.
>
>Can someone help me spot what am I doing wrong?

Your helpdesk/__init__.py imports 'storage' from peak.api, and importString 
picks this up as being 'helpdesk.storage'.  It then tries to retrieve 
'ClientDM' from peak.storage.api as a result.  When this fails, it falls 
back to attempting to import 'helpdesk.storage.ClientDM' as a module.  This 
fails, but it causes the correct 'helpdesk.storage' module to be loaded as 
a side effect, such that subsequent checks work.

So, in helpdesk/__init__.py you shouldn't use 'from peak.api import *'; 
it's generally not a great idea to put much in __init__.py files anyway.

I could probably also change importString() to try importing *before* doing 
getattr(), and maybe display better error information, but I'm not sure 
when I'll have time to do that and figure out some tests for it.