On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Georg Brandl wrote:
> > PS. If you're hunting for keywords to overload to drag variables into
> > scope,
> > "import" is also available, although would probably be very hard to make
> > work.
>
> How should that possibly work?
Without treading on the toes of the existing import syntax, god knows
(which is what I meant by "very hard").
The docs claim import exists to "(2) define a name or names in the local
namespace (of the scope where the import statement occurs)" but since
outer variable names may shadow module names,
def f():
import x
couldn't be used :-(
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