[melbourne-pug] Import questions

[William ML Leslie]

On 6 March 2014 11:16, Brian May <brian at microcomaustralia.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> [2] Also, on a separate thread, can somebody point me to a document that
> describes the difference between the two forms of import in as described in
> [1]? It seems that they are different.
>

The best place to find answers for all language questions is the langref.

http://docs.python.org/3/reference/simple_stmts.html#the-import-statement

specifically, 'import module' loads and initialises the module if needed,
and then binds the name 'module' to the module.

'import package.module' loads and initialises package, and then module, if
needed.  then, it binds the name 'package' to the top-level package.

'from module import name' loads and initialises the module if needed, and
then binds the name 'name' to the value of 'module.name'.

So the names within the current module are different for the two examples
you give - the first binds '__version__' also, and the second binds
'module' also.

-- 
William Leslie

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