Basic 'import' problem

[Frantisek Fuka]

This thing keeps bugging me. It's probably some basic misunderstanding 
on my part but I am stumped. Let's say I have two Python files: file.py 
and file2.py. Their contents is as follows:

file.py:
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import file2
def hello():
	print "Hello"
file2.hello2()

file2.py:
---------------------
import file
def hello2():
	print "Hello2"
file.hello()

Now, when I run "file.py", I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "file.py", line 1, in ?
     import file2
   File "/cygdrive/t/python/file2.py", line 1, in ?
     import file
   File "T:\python\file.py", line 4, in ?
     file2.hello2()
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'hello2'

I think I grasp why I got this error (file2.hello2() is referenced 
before its definition was "compiled" by Python) but I am puzzled as to 
how to do this properly. Isn't it fairly common for two source files to 
reference each other in this way? I know I can solve this by putting the 
import statement after the def statement, but I have the similar problem 
in much larger project, with many files and many includes and I'd like 
to keep all my includes at the beginning of the file.

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