import namespace issues

[Harald Kirsch]

"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:

> "Harald Kirsch" <kirschh at lionbioscience.com> wrote in message
> news:yv2lmlxgnji.fsf at lionsp093.lion-ag.de...
> > QUESTION 2:
> > Is there a detailed description somewhere in the docs about the
> > namespaces (or dictionaries) used/created/shuffled during an import?
> 
> I think the documentation for __import__ is pretty clear about
> it, "the standard implementation does not use its locals argument
> at all, and uses its globals only to determine the package context
> of the import statement".

I sometimes find that the python docs seem to expect some prior
knowledge about `obvious behaviour' from the reader and consequently
are a bit terse. Therefore I believed the above statement only after
having read the code :-)

  Harald.

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