Importing from builtin library when module with same name exists

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Changing the name of your module is not necessary. Rather, you can use absolute_import to change the importing behavior. For example with stem/socket.py I import the socket module as follows:

from __future__ import absolute_import
import socket

This only works with Python 2.5 and above; it’s enabling behavior that is the default in Python 3.0 and higher. Pylint will complain about the code but it’s perfectly valid.

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