Two implementations of a module with a same name-import problems - python

I use two libraries built on top of caffe: crf-rnn(https://github.com/torrvision/crfasrnn/tree/master/python-scripts) and hed(https://github.com/s9xie/hed/blob/master/examples/hed/), the former for semantic image segmentation, the latter for contour detection. Finally, I realized how to get them to work together for object tracking, but now I face an embarrassing problem: as both are built on top of caffe, they import the same package, but each with very different content, i.e. crf-rnn uses caffe.Segmenter which hed doesn't have and ed uses caffe.TEST which crf-rnn doesn't have.
Python doesn't allow import of two packages with the same name. I've tried finding a workaround by puting hed in a separate Python file and importing it in the main script, and using as to import caffe as cf for one of the packages, but so far nothing has worked out.
Any suggestions?
EDIT: this is a file called Aux.py
def import_hed_caffe():
import sys,os
caffe_dir = '/home/alex/Downloads/hed/python'
sys.path.insert(0,caffe_dir)
hed_model = 'deploy.prototxt'
hed_pretrained = 'hed_pretrained_bsds.caffemodel'
import caffe as cf
net = cf.Net(hed_model, hed_pretrained, cf.TEST)
return net
This is the main script:
caffe_root = '../caffe-crfrnn/'
sys.path.insert(0, caffe_root + 'python')
import caffe as espresso
import AuxScript
net = espresso.Segmenter(MODEL_FILE, PRETRAINED, gpu=False)
a=AuxScript.import_hed_caffe()
and I get
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'TEST'
Needless to say, separately everything works fine, so it's just the import
EDIT 2:
./CMakeFiles
./CMakeFiles/pycaffe.dir
./CMakeFiles/pycaffe.dir/caffe
./caffe
./caffe/imagenet
./caffe/proto
./caffe/test
EDIT 3:
├── caffe
│   ├── _caffe.cpp
│   ├── _caffe.so -> /home/alex/Downloads/hed/lib/_caffe.so
│   ├── classifier.py
│   ├── classifier.pyc
│   ├── detector.py
│   ├── detector.pyc
│   ├── draw.py
│   ├── imagenet
│   │   └── ilsvrc_2012_mean.npy
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── __init__.pyc
│   ├── io.py
│   ├── io.pyc
│   ├── net_spec.py
│   ├── net_spec.pyc
│   ├── proto
│   │   ├── caffe_pb2.py
│   │   └── __init__.py
│   ├── pycaffe.py
│   ├── pycaffe.pyc
│   └── test
│   ├── test_layer_type_list.py
│   ├── test_net.py
│   ├── test_net_spec.py
│   ├── test_python_layer.py
│   ├── test_python_layer_with_param_str.py
│   └── test_solver.py
├── classify.py
├── CMakeFiles
│   ├── CMakeDirectoryInformation.cmake
│   ├── progress.marks
│   └── pycaffe.dir
│   ├── build.make
│   ├── caffe
│   │   └── _caffe.cpp.o
│   ├── cmake_clean.cmake
│   ├── CXX.includecache
│   ├── DependInfo.cmake
│   ├── depend.internal
│   ├── depend.make
│   ├── flags.make
│   ├── link.txt
│   └── progress.make
├── cmake_install.cmake
├── CMakeLists.txt
├── detect.py
├── draw_net.py
├── Makefile
├── requirements.txt

I have seen your last edit, and I must say that changing/tampering with python sys.path is necessary in your context but not sufficient here: you have to rename one of the caffe packages.
Ex: if the caffe package is a directory called caffe containing a __init__.py file, rename caffe to espresso and in your code simply:
import espresso
(if it's just a caffe.py file, rename to espresso.py although it may be more problematic if there are other modules in the same directory, well worth a try)
BTW: When importing a module, say, xxx, you can know which full filepath it is using by typing:
print(xxx.__file__)
(useful when you have a doubt)

OK, so I found the least sophisticated solution possible: I wrote two scripts, one for crf-rnn producing the blobs that I ran on the full dataset just once and stored the output.
Then I wrote the second script, with hed edge detector that I use every time I detect and track objects.

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