[storm] Relative imports & Storm (bug?)

[Alec Henriksen]

Hello list,

I've encountered a problem--possibly a bug, in the Storm ORM. 

It has to do with importing Storm objects into the local namespace. In
the Storm Tutorial, you encourage users to do this:

>>> from storm.locals import *

This works fine for when your module is in the parent directory for
storm. For example, I have a module named, "calendar.py" which connects
to a database (with Storm) and pulls records successfully. However, this
module (calendar.py) fails when I import it from another module
(ajax.py) in its parent directory.

So, this is the structure:

ajax.py
components/
	calendar.py
	common.py
	...
	storm/
		locals.py

ajax.py imports calendar with this line:
>>> import components.calendar

calendar.py imports Storm locals with this:
>>> from storm.locals import *

Here is the error I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "ajax.py", line 15, in <module>
    import components.calendar
  File "/var/www/components/calendar.py", line 33, in <module>
    from storm.locals import *
  File "/var/www/components/storm/locals.py", line 21, in <module>
    from storm.properties import Bool, Int, Float, RawStr, Chars, Unicode, Pickle
ImportError: No module named storm.properties

I'm using Python 2.6.2.

Any idea what the issue is? Any idea how to fix it?
-- 
Alec Henriksen <alecwh at gmail.com> @ http://alecwh.com