Inconsistency in import from server vs uplink module

Anvil Q&A
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Can someone explain this inconsistency?

This import is automatically added to a new server module and doesn’t work in an uplink module:

import anvil.tables as tables
from anvil.tables import app_tables

This works on both server and uplink modules:

from tables import app_tables

I replace the server version with the uplink, so I can import the server module on an uplink one.

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We moved those packages a little while ago, to avoid conflict with other top-level modules, particularly on the Uplink (we made an announcement post a few months ago, although the uplink was a little slower to update). The original names (eg import tables) still work for now, on the server and in older versions of the uplink, but we recommend moving to the anvil.* namespace (eg import anvil.tables).

If you upgrade to the latest version of the uplink, you’ll find that import anvil.tables works:

pip install --upgrade anvil-uplink
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