On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:53 AM, HoneyMonster <someone@someplace.invalid> wrote: > One issue I have run into, which may or may not be a problem: I am > finding that modules in the in-house "library" package sometimes have to > import modules like sys and os, which are also imported by the "calling" > module. Is this a problem or an overhead, or does it just result in two > names for the same object?
Two names for the same object. When a module is imported, the module object is stored in the sys.modules dict. Further imports of the same module just return the same module object from sys.modules. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list