[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All, > > What is the difference between > import string > and > from string import * > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Projects/dbimp $ python Python 2.4.1 (#1, May 27 2005, 18:02:40) [GCC 3.3.3 (cygwin special)] on cygwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. Started with C:/Steve/.pythonrc >>> dirnow = dir() >>> import string >>> print [x for x in dir() if x not in dirnow] ['_[1]', 'dirnow', 'string'] >>>
In the above case something in string is accessed as string.something. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Projects/dbimp $ python Python 2.4.1 (#1, May 27 2005, 18:02:40) [GCC 3.3.3 (cygwin special)] on cygwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. Started with C:/Steve/.pythonrc >>> dirnow = dir() >>> from string import * >>> print [x for x in dir() if x not in dirnow] ['Template', '_[1]', 'ascii_letters', 'ascii_lowercase', 'ascii_uppercase', 'atof', 'atof_error', 'atoi', 'atoi_error', 'atol', 'atol_error', 'capitalize', 'capwords', 'center', 'count', 'digits', 'dirnow', 'expandtabs', 'find', 'hexdigits', 'index', 'index_error', 'join', 'joinfields', 'letters', 'ljust', 'lower', 'lowercase', 'lstrip', 'maketrans', 'octdigits', 'printable', 'punctuation', 'replace', 'rfind', 'rindex', 'rjust', 'rsplit', 'rstrip', 'split', 'splitfields', 'strip', 'swapcase', 'translate', 'upper', 'uppercase', 'whitespace', 'zfill'] >>> In the second case something from string is inserted directly into the current module's namespace, possibly rebinding the name "something" if it already had a value, but you get the convenience of being able to access it as something. Not generally regarded as a good idea unless you know the package and know it has been designed to be used in this way. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Love me, love my blog http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
