Mazhar Hussain wrote: > thanks alot for the help, was really confused with this.
> Well what ure > trying to say is that even when a module object is deleted from the > global namespace of a module, a reference of it is still present in > the sys.modules dict? Yes, adding the reference to the sys.modules cache is an integral part of the import. > that means every object refers to its own module > in the sys.modules dict? No, every function has a reference to the enclosing module's global namespace where it looks up (global) names. As long as the module isn't garbage-collected these names refer to meaningful values. The module isn't garbage-collected as long as there is at least one reference, and for modules that occur only in a from mymodule import ... statement that reference is sys.modules["mymodule"]. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
