2.1.1 global weirds

[Robin Becker]

In article <9l35hb03081 at enews1.newsguy.com>, Alex Martelli
<aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes
>"Robin Becker" <robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:FkggeoAAfQd7Ewfb at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk...
>    ...
>> why is b2.getStory not getStory? Is it because importing from a isn't
>> the same as the importing from the __main__ module?
>
>Exactly.  You have two instances of the module, one referred
>to by sys.modules['__main__'] and the other by sys.modules['a'].
>
>
>> What is the correct way to import from the main script?
>
>import __main__
>
>
>Alex

not exactly good programming though if I later I import run from a in a
different main script.

Isn't this a wart?
-- 
Robin Becker