On Aug 27, 5:42 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > alex23 schrieb: > > > > > nisp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've always been convinced of the equivalence of the two ways of using > >> the import statement but it's clear I'm wrong :-( > > > Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jul 31 2008, 17:28:52) > > [GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2 > > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>>> from sys import stderr > >>>> import sys > >>>> sys.stderr is stderr > > True > > > Behaviourly, I'm finding no difference between the two either. > > > Could you cut & paste a minimal example that isn't producing the > > correct behaviour, and perhaps mention what type of OS you're using? > > You did not read this part of the post: > > """ > I'm not able to capture its stderr and of course I would like not to > do this kind of change. > """ > > He tries to set sys.stderr to a new stream and capture the print > statements, but fails to do so because he created a local alias.
No, I read it, I just totally didn't parse it that way :) Sorry for the confusion, nisp. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
