On 31/08/2022 19.38, Antoon Pardon wrote: > > > Op 30/08/2022 om 23:52 schreef dn: >> The conversation seems to be wandering some way from the OP. Whereas >> both of these answers are clever (and I assume work), the question >> becomes: why would you want to do this? (especially as it looks ugly and >> 'smells' a bit convoluted). An example use-case from your experience? >> >> >> Delving into the list-archive, to get back to the OP: the first message >> in the thread quotes another message that's (apparently) not present. >> >> However, in there somewhere is: >> >>> from test import * >> So, the elephant-in-the-room has always been a very stinky 'code-smell' >> - which pretty much every text or web-tutorial will say is a bad idea. > > No that is a red herring. If for some reason a variable in a module has > to be (re)set after import time, it doesn't matter whether someone uses > > from module import * > > or > > from module import resetable_variable > > in both cases the module that did the import will not notice the change > in the original module. > > focussing on the code smell, is leading the attention away from the > problem.
Are you the OP? The behavior has been shown to be exactly that which is (should be) expected. -- Regards, =dn -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
