Can you preventing import dependency loops?

[xconspirisist]

I'm having a problem where two modules depend on each other. I am using simple import statements, but it would create an endless loop as the two files try to import each other. Obviously python prevents this, but it only gets to a certain point in each file. This is rather hard to explain by text, so I'll try an explain by example.

You start off by parsing a.py

a.py

print "a"

import b

def d():
	print "d"

b.py

print "b"

import a

def c():
	print "c"
	d();
	
c()

This will fail, because d has not yet been defined. The problem is, that code in b.py depends on code in a.py, and vice versa. Here is the output and eventual stacktrace.

Originally Posted by stacktrace

a
b
a
c
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Documents and Settings\xconspirisist\Desktop\a.py", line 3, in <module>
import b
File "C:\Documents and Settings\xconspirisist\Desktop\b.py", line 9, in <module>
c()
File "C:\Documents and Settings\xconspirisist\Desktop\b.py", line 7, in c
d();
NameError: global name 'd' is not defined

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[nytrokiss]

Try the from statment