python - Importing a file that is a symbolic link

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Solution

Python will import it twice.

A link is a file system concept. To the Python interpreter, `x.py` and `y.py` are two different modules.

$ echo print \"importing \" + __file__ > x.py
$ ln -s x.py y.py
$ python -c "import x; import y"
importing x.py
importing y.py
$ python -c "import x; import y"
importing x.pyc
importing y.pyc
$ ls -F *.py *.pyc
x.py  x.pyc  y.py@  y.pyc

Problem

If I have files x.py and y.py . And y.py is the link(symbolic or hard) of x.py . If I import both the modules in my script. Will it import it once or it assumes both are different files and import it twice. What it does exactly?

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