On 8/7/2012 11:32 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
On Tuesday, August 7, 2012 9:55:16 AM UTC-4, Ben Finney wrote:
The tutorial is misleading on this. It it says plainly:
A module can contain executable statements as well as function
definitions. […] They are executed only the *first* time the
module is imported somewhere.
The last sentence should be more like "They are executed only the
*first* time the module is imported anywhere with a particular name.
(One should avoid importing a module under different names.)
<URL:http://docs.python.org/tutorial/modules.html>
[1] In fact function definitions are also ‘statements’ that are
‘executed’; the execution of a module-level function enters the
function name in the module’s global symbol table.
I think what it's supposed to say is "... the execution of a
module-level def statement ..."
right
Care to file a documentation bug <URL:http://bugs.python.org/>
describing this?
Sure, once I understand how it's really supposed to work :-)
You don't need a final solution to file. Anyway, I think the change
above might be enough.
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