[Zope-dev] Zope and python namespaces

[Dieter Maurer]

Roch'e Compaan writes:
 > I wrote an external method that uses Graphite, Sping and PIL to
 > generate charts, but I ran into some namespace problems.  Execution
 > of the external method fails because there is a clash in the namespace
 > between PIL and Zope.  PIL has a module "ImageFile" and Zope does as
 > well.  Even	if I insert PIL's path explicitly as the first entry in
 > the path, Zope's ImageFile is still being used.
 > 
 > How can I resolve this and what is the best strategy to avoid namespace
 > problems here?
Use Pythons package feature, i.e. use

    import PIL

    PIL.ImageFile


Dieter