Eric Snow wrote:
Of course, the application of all this would be to let a module control what happens when another module tries to use the first module's namespace.
BTW, if anyone's wondering about use cases for this, I have one in PyGUI where the top-level module auto-imports names from submodules the first time you refer to them. This avoids the overhead of loading modules that an application doesn't use, without requiring the user to memorise which names come from which submodules. It also gives me the flexibility to move things around between submodules if I want. This is currently done using a custom module subclass with a __getattr__ method. Although I'm thinking about using a different strategy, because the current one confuses the heck out of py2app and py2exe. :-( -- Greg