Namespace conflict with python config package

[CarterDoud]

Greetings,

When trying to run Python code that uses the Python Package "config", a namespace error occurs. Python will import the config module that belongs to reticulate itself, rather than the top level package "config".

Here's a minimal example. The example assumes that you have a Python virtual environment set up called 'venv'. The example will attempt to install the config package as well.

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library(reticulate)
reticulate::use_virtualenv('venv')
reticulate::py_install("config")
reticulate::py_config()
utils::sessionInfo()

import config
cfg = config.Config('config.cfg')

This example assumes a minimal 'config.cfg' such as this:

test: 'test'

The above code produces the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> AttributeError: module 'config' has no attribute 'Config'

When other packages are imported, they are correctly loaded from the virtual environment. Is there a solution to avoid this namespace conflict?

Code very similar to this has been used as part of a project in the past and has successfully avoided the issue, but the exact solution is not known.

If I import the module in R using reticulate::import('config') the package is found correctly

[t-kalinowski]

Thanks for reporting! This should be fixed on main now. Please install the development version and try it out:

pak::pak("rstudio/reticulate")