Duncan Booth wrote:
> iu2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> file a3.py:
>> ========
>> from a1 import the_number
>> import a2
>>
> ...
>> Why doesn't it work in the first version of a3.py?
>>
> Think of 'import a2' as being the same as:
>
> a2 = __import__('a2')
>
> and 'from a1 import the_number' as roughly the same as:
>
> the_number = __import__('a1').the_number
>
> In other words think of them as assignments and it should all make sense.
>
This is a little surprising. So "from mod import *" really copies all of the
scalars into new variables in the local namespace. The same is true with
object pointers I suppose, but this is transparent as all the copies
access the same object.
I always ASSumed that the two forms of import were equivalent, but that
one form did away with the need to be explicit about the namespace: mod.thing
Obviously this is far from the case.
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