On Fri, 08 May 2009 19:14:52 +0200, Marco wrote: > I import a module and then the name space of the importing module seems do > be overwritten. > > my_name = __name__ > print my_name > print len(dir()) > from x import y as z > print __name__ > print len(dir()) > print my_name > > -> > __main__ > 119 > x > 117 > unhandled NameError "name 'my_name' is not defined"
Interesting. Here's one possibility for the contents of module x.py: import sys del sys.modules['__main__'].my_name y = 42 I can't think of any other way apart from grovelling through sys.modules. Glenn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
