pythonic way to optimize access to imported value?

[Greg Ewing]

Bengt Richter wrote:

> I assumed that it is possible to release all references to an imported module, so that
> the garbage collector can eliminate it from memory


That won't happen -- the module remains in the global
list of modules maintained by the interpreter, even if
all other references to it go away.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg