Dec. 29, 2014
1:06 a.m.
On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
If I've understood it correctly, it's also process-wide global, rather than limited to a single module. That makes it much less useful, as it risks disguising bugs in library code.
Though if you are using interactive mode to test library code, you might have bigger problems on your hands than implicit imports... This topic came up in a completely unrelated thread in c.l.py wherein I apologized for an automatic import of the csv module in some interactive copy-n-paste. Chris asked about it, and I posted the module I use (which I don't think was original with me) as a convenience in interactive mode. Then he looked into things and came up with this patch. S