r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes: > Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.ma...@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> writes: >>If you're worried bout having things on separate lines, you could write: >>import os; os.getcwd() >>,etc., which is actually saving a few characters :) > > Yes, but there still is the risk of the identifier »os« > already being used in the sorrounding code. While > > __import__( "os" ).getcwd() > > does not seem to "leak" names into the enclosing scope.
Also it's an expression which may be important in your "quick and dirty" scripts. -- Ben. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list