Reading through the Python tutorial, I got to section 6.4.1, "Importing * From a Package", which states:
"If __all__ is not defined, the statement from Sound.Effects import * does not import all submodules from the package Sound.Effects into the current namespace; ..." It then goes on to state: "[It] imports whatever names are defined in the package [including] any submodules of the package that were explicitly loaded by previous import statements." I am curious to learn the rationale for this behavior, since it just caught me by surprise (hence the reason I was pouring over the tutorial document in such detail :-)) Thus far, everything in Python has seemed very intuitive to me, however the behavior of "from package import *" baffles me. So I figured I'd ask -- why does Python behave this way. (And now, I'm going to do some code cleanup :-)) --wpd -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
