> Good that you're not advocating it, because IMHO it's bad practice to > have circular import dependencies. By using the __main__ alias, you > avoid the worst problems, but that just means the others are more subtle.
I figured I'd get that kind of response, not that it's incorrect ;) Great power\great responsibility\etc. As I understand it, when you enter Python statements at the interactive prompt, it's adding the result directly to ___main___ (which for lack of a better term I like to call 'universal' scope... rolls off the tongue better than 'doubleunderscore main doubleunderscore'): >>> foo = 23 >>> import __main__ >>> print __main__.foo 23 While this might not be the most common way of working for most people (I'm guessing most folks are in a nice cozy IDE), people working this way are mucking about in the 'universal' scope without (possibly) even knowing it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
