On 01/31/2014 01:57 AM, Ian D wrote:
Hi

is
import longModuleName  as lmn

or

lmn = longModuleName

creating an alias or assigning to a variable..... or both?

Yes (I'm not goint to get into the symantic issues of what's an alias or variable)

Python 2.7.3 (default, Nov  2 2012, 09:35:42)
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-85)] on linux2
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>>> import sys as s
>>> m = s
>>> id(m)
1075446500
>>> id(s)
1075446500
>>>

The id's are the same so they refer to the same object.

Emile



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