Donn Ingle a écrit : >> would be a VeryBadThing(tm). > :) > >> Having explicits imports in each module is good wrt/ readability. > Okay, I can accept that. I worry that it's opening the module file over and > over again
Hopefully not ! "import" is not "include". > - or does it open it once and kind of re-point to it when it > hits a second import of the same thing? You guess. When fisrt imported, the module's source is executed, a module object is created and stored in sys.modules, and the needed names are inserted into the importing module's namespace. Next times the module is "served" directly from sys.modules. > >> package, you can of course factor them out in a distinct submodule and >> just do a 'from myimports import *' at the top of the others submodules... > Good point. Note that while it's perfectly legal, that's a pattern I'd try to avoid unless I have a very good reason to use it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
