other python ideas

[Jeff Petkau]

Douglas Alan <nessus at mit.edu> wrote in message
news:lcvgoeiva4.fsf at gaffa.mit.edu...
>
>    mymodule::foo(a, b, c)
>
> This syntax would invoke mymodule.foo(), and would load module
> "mymodule" it if it wasn't already loaded.  You'd probably also want
> some sort of module aliasing notation so you could use
>
>   alias m my_really_long_named_module
>   m::foo(a, b, c)
>
> in place of
>
>   my_really_long_named_module::foo(a, b, c)

How is this any better than:

    import my_really_long_named_module as m
    m.foo(a, b, c)
?

For avoiding import statements, you could write something
like this:

    class ModuleGetter:
        def __getattr__(self,name):
            if name.startswith('__'):
                raise AttributeError
                    return __import__(name)
    module = ModuleGetter()

And now you can do without the imports:
    module.mymodule.foo(a, b, c)
    module.os.chmod(blah, blah)
    x = module.re.compile('[a-z]')

--Jeff Petkau