Tobiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a little surprising. So "from mod import *" really copies > all of the scalars into new variables in the local namespace.
No. Nothing is copied. All the objects (remembering that in Python, *everything* is an object) created by the code in module 'mod' are given names in the current namespace. > 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. Yes. In fact the main difference is in what namespace the module's objects are made available. -- \ "The way to build large Python applications is to componentize | `\ and loosely-couple the hell out of everything." -- Aahz | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
