Question

Can I have a package and a module with the same name in Python?

ex:

import json
import myapp.json.jsoncustommodule

I don’t know if this has anything to do with the fact that json is in Python built-in library.

In most languages, this is acceptable. However, Python seems to confuse both things, even if they are in different parent packages.

Answer 1

To answer your question, there’s no issue with doing something like this in python.

However if you have a namespace conflict resulting from something like this:-

import json

from myspecialpackage import json

You will need to resolve it by using as keyword, like this:-

from myspecialpackage import json as special_json