The rules of reference

[Emile van Sebille]

Gerson Kurz, discovering the difference in __main__ and import:
> Frankly, I'm stunned.

The imported 'a' module is not __main__, ergo the different namespaces
by the time 'b'.  You can probably see this if you include a print
__name__ at the top of 'a'.  I'd expect you'll see the difference upon
importing 'a'.

HTH,

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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

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