[Jython-users] class conflict

[Chris G. <cg...@gc...>]

Hi everyone,

I'm seeing some strange behavior when running jython servlets from 
Tomcat 4.  Not sure where the source of the error is but I'll try to 
explain.

I have 2 classes and they both have the same name but our in different 
packages, ie., something like this:

pkgA.Foo
pkgB.Foo

These two classes are different implementation-wise, but they both have 
the same name.

The code I have very explicity refers to pkgA.Foo:

from pkgA import Foo
f = Foo()

but for some reaon it is using pkgB.Foo.

Now, since this is all loaded under the Tomcat virtual machine, it it 
possible that pkgA.Foo did get loaded into memory, so somehow maybe it 
overwrote the pkgB.Foo when it was loaded by another application?

I noticed this behavior because I was getting all kinds of errors when 
the application was loading and executing the wrong Foo.  Then when I 
restarted the Tomcat server everything worked fine.

I'm wondering is it possible to explicitly use a class from a particular 
package like this:

str = java.lang.String()

This can be done in Java, can this be done in python?

Hopefully this makes some sense to someone :)

Chris



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