"John Bokma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> def foo(): >> import bar >> bar.printStuff() > I am new to Python so this might be a weird question, but it there a > reason why you import bar inside foo?
Two possible reasons: 1) delay import until actually needed, if ever. 2) put 'bar' into the function local namespace instead of the module global namespace Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
