On Tuesday, August 7, 2012 9:55:16 AM UTC-4, Ben Finney wrote: > The tutorial is misleading on this. It it says plainly: > > A module can contain executable statements as well as function > definitions. […] They are executed only the *first* time the module > is imported somewhere. > > <URL:http://docs.python.org/tutorial/modules.html>
That's more than misleading. It's plain wrong. The example I gave demonstrates the "print __file__" statement getting executed twice. The footnote to that is wrong too: > [1] In fact function definitions are also ‘statements’ that are ‘executed’; > the execution of a > module-level function enters the function name in the module’s global symbol > table. I think what it's supposed to say is "... the execution of a module-level def statement ..." > Care to file a documentation bug <URL:http://bugs.python.org/> > describing this? Sure, once I understand how it's really supposed to work :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
