On 4 July 2013 13:48, <kanchan.n.maha...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, April 8, 2008 10:06:46 PM UTC+2, Torsten Bronger wrote: [snip] > > If you do "import foo" inside bar and "import bar" inside foo, it will work > fine. By the time anything actually runs, both modules will be fully loaded > and will have references to each other. > > The problem is when instead you do "from foo import abc" and "from bar import > xyz". Because now each module requires the other module to already be > compiled (so that the name we are importing exists) before it can be compiled. > > from > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/744373/circular-or-cyclic-imports-in-python
Is there some reason you're responding to a post from 5 years ago? Or is it just a joke that you've created a cyclic import advice link by referring to a SO question where the top answer is actually a quote linking back to the previous post in this same thread? Oscar -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list