namespace and reloading (was Re: PythonWin IDE sucks!)

[Michael Hudson]

hzhu at users.sourceforge.net (Huaiyu Zhu) writes:

> I think that once you do "from module import *" there's no way to find out
> which name in your current name space came from which module.  (Somebody
> please confirm this as I'm not completely sure.)

No, that's right.  With function objects you can do:

>>> f.func_code.co_filename 
'/home/mwh21/src/python/basic.py'

but that doesn't necessarily tell you where the module you're
interested in got the name from...

Cheers,
M.

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