[omniORB] Global scope in omniORBpy

[Leandro Fanzone]

I have a small problem. Given the following IDLs:

p.idl:

	interface if1
	{
		void f();
	};

	module m1
	{
		const long C1 = 1;
	};

q.idl:
	interface if2
	{
		void f();
	};

	module m2
	{
		const long C2 = 2;
	};

from within python I want to import the interface if2:

	>>> from _GlobalIDL import if2

and everything works as usual. Now if I first import m1 from p.idl:

	>>> import m1
	>>> from _GlobalIDL import f2
	Traceback (most recent call last):
	  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
	ImportError: cannot import name if2.

This is because the "import m1" clause creates its own module _GlobalIDL 
and any further "import _GlobalIDL" will do nothing, there is already a 
_GlobalIDL name loaded. Importing a module defined in an IDL file that 
also declares global symbols prevents any other global symbols from 
other IDL files to be loaded in subsequent imports. A possible solution 
could be to import _GlobalIDL before any other import.
Is this so by design?


Leandro Fanzone